The Delta variant

How so?

If we are testing 20k per day and detecting 500 cases, is your contention that if we tested 100k we would find 2500?

Delta Variant mortality rate in UK to date (9 July Report):

0.2%

Under 50 0.0% (Some deaths but statistically small).

Over 50 1.9%

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Why then was Alpha variant killing 2% of people in UK and now Delta variant only killing 0.2%?

Vaccines are like a raincoat. They will protect you most of the time, but some people still get wet.

People unvaccinated are largely the young who are unlikely to die from Covid, which is why they are only being vaccinated now.

Alpha was not the first one, by a long way....

Alpha was identified in Kent in September 2020 and caused the wave in UK and Ireland at Christmas.

Why has mortality reduced from 2% to 0.2%.

Maybe Delta is slightly less severe, but main reduction reasons are vaccines to vulnerable people.

Most young people, a vaccine is not the difference between living or dieing.

People who get flu jab each year die of the flu.

The reason to get it from individual perspective:

An unlucky/unhealthy person who gets severe covid/long covid, a vaccine will help protect them from the worst covid can do.

From a community perspective:

Less likely to spread covid to your near and dear who might not deal with covid as well as you.

Helping to reduce covid spread in your community.

Less likely to go hospital with covid and therefore reducing burden on hospitals.

Irish population are well informed and have good trust levels in vaccines, hence demand still outstripping supply in Ireland.

Other parts of the world not so much for variety of reasons.

Romanians distrust their goverment due to soviet era.

Southern states of USA, deeply entrenched views, poor education, distrust of government etc.

Alot of distrust in vaccines is essentially distrust in your government.

Look around the world and see the people who are not taking the vaccine, the poor, the marginalised, the uneducated because they dont trust the government.

I dont trust the government blindly at all.

I think they have got loads of things wrong in this pandemic.

I do trust the people that made the vaccines and I understand why thy are less likely to stop infection now.

Actually their goal was always from the start to try and stop severe disease.

They have done this really well.

Hence tens of thousand of infections per day and only a few deaths.

The 95% infection reduction was never the over riding goal.

It was all about harm reduction and reducing burden in hospitals.

The mortality rate of covid in europe is heading toward flu mortality rate.

0 deaths of covid in europe in the short/ medium term is not going to happen.

Your expectations are quite something to behold you want vaccines to stop 95% of infections and 100% of deaths.

That is not something vaccine makers ever set out to accomplish in 2020.