Maybe it transmit less but it transmit, and this is a 2 week virus anyway, i mean even if someone get it, he will only be contagious for 2 weeks and after that will have a natural immunity for 6 to 8 months at least so that work as well.
Yes, and if during these 2 weeks he is contagious he gives it to two people, who give it to two people, who give it to two people, we end up with a pandemic.
This is exactly the problem we are living. If you are sick and give it to 1 person, the number of sick remains even.
The blabla scientific jargon this is an R value of 1.0.
If 2 people are sick, one gives it to nobody and one gives it to one person, the R value = 0.5. Over time the thing dies out. This is what happens with things like the common flu.
But in India right now they have a R of 2 and this is why things are out of control. 2 people that give it to 2 people that give it to 2 people..... is 256 people in 8 days and 65536 in 16 days.
Quebec right now is hovering just under 1.0. That is why we are slowing down very slowly. Lift restrictions too much and we will go above 1.0 and it will start to grow. The minute you go over 1 it can become VERY difficult to bring back. It is a very fragile balancing act when close to 1. You can go from nobody in ICU to full in 3 weeks. Don't look at hospitalizations, look at the R number.
Variants are more contagious and make the R number greater
Many people vaccinated, even if partially vaccinated make the R number go down. It's not about whether you will survive Covid, it's about as a community can we keep the R value below 1 and we all have a responsibility in doing that.
There is no magic bullet. Restrictions can get the R value down, vaccination can get it down. The more we do of one, the less we need to do the other.
