RE: catch 22?28 Dec 2020 15:35
It’s a terrible and weak argument, vaccinations have to be 2 things; effective and rolled out at pace. It’s all about breaking transmission. If it’s not rolled out fast enough then as immunity doesn’t appear to last forever then you need to start again. It needs to move faster than the spread otherwise it’s like painting the forth road bridge. To answer his deliberately stupid question, yes, demand can be infinite if it becomes endemic and constantly mutates. Therefore, along with it, you need infinite testing to control it on an ongoing basis.
It’s a variation on the missing boat, bless him. He’s trying, but the rate of testing is nowhere near enough currently. There needs to be a huge increase, it’ll need to continue until we know how effective vaccines actually are and once we’re hopefully on top of it, it’ll be needed for venues, borders, airports, outbreaks for quite some time. It’s impossible to know if you have it under control unless you have sufficient mass testing. Conclusion... We’ve not missed a boat yet, but as we’ve seen there’s been a few set sail to Innova loaded with hundreds of millions.
Meanwhile, here’s our resident bore heading to the shops... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEB2S83FJJU