I may be missing something here but while the European numbets show an increase in positive test results, fatalities are still down. The UK has been in a delta spike for two months yet its fatalities are running 20 to 30 daily. Way way down from this past winter.
Israel only had one Covid death in June. Delta is mild.
What surprises me is that most people I mention this to already knew. American people are wising up.
Yeah, a lot of these articles state that Delta variant is more contagious. It might be. But so far, little to no evidence that it is more dangerous.
Canada has discovered a few score cases of Lambda mutation. It’s getting out of hand. Sure, research the mutants. But there is nothing to suggest things are getting worse for we humans. At least not yet.
We’ll see what happens in the winter, and then we’ll learn a few things about the vaccine efficacy against variants, whether the vaccine “immunity” lasts more than a few months, whether the current trends are seasonal, etc.
You’re not missing anything. The Delta variant is more contagious but less lethal. That’s why they’re hyping the “more contagious” part and saying nothing at all about “less lethal.”
As always, it’s all about the agenda and nothing about the issue.
“I may be missing something here but while the European numbers show an increase in positive test results, fatalities are still down. “
The most vulnerable tended to get vaccinated first. Now Delta is flashing through the unvaccinated. There will likely be a much lower fatality rate, just because its a mostly younger crop of patients, but deaths will likely rise somewhat in absolute numbers. They lag case number changes by a few weeks.
It is already started in the USA as well, but we are weeks behind the European wave.