Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "COVID lockdowns being discussed in more countries as virus surges" video.

The core problem is that with the delta variant it sheds about 1000x the viral particles as the original covid-19 strain. This means you need near universal vaccination to stop it. What has been found in these European countries is that even though vaccinated people can get infected they can't sustain the spread. Mostly it seems to just infect a vaccinated person's nose and maybe beyond that if the person is immunocompromised. What we are seeing in these countries is large groups of unvaccinated people get infected and overwhelming the hospitals and at the same time cause others to become infected. Think of the vaccine as resistance and not immunity. A shield might protect you from tens of attacks but when you start getting hit with tens of thousands of attacks stuff gets through. Right now the only way to get out of this is to vaccinate everyone or have different rules for people that refuse to be vaccinated so that they can't just spread the virus and create variants. To further add to this and give some perspective with the original variant if you were near another person on average you would have to be close to them for about 5 minutes to get enough virus particles to get infected. With the delta variant that time is about 1 second. It is much better at spreading.
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@mattsmith8947 There is nothing copy and paste about this. What I wrote there is based on reading journal articles and talking with other researchers. At this point I am tired of this situation and the best I can hope for is we run out of unvaccinated people.
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