Was reading this post and was absolutely terrified. It's gonna be bad.
Take away is that current lock downs are basically useless against the new strain as it has mutated enough to be more transmissible thru/around mask. Vaccines are still likely to work, and its not more deadly (seems like), but just going to blow thru our preventive measures like nothing.
Reposting because the first post didn't get enough traction and I need people to commiserate with me. Pulled out the money shot image, because I know libs don't read .
Even in exemplar blue state New York, you have to fill out a 51 question form to get a fucking vaccine.
The U.K. has utterly fucked up handling covid too, but at least the vaccination process for my elderly parents was them getting an unprompted phone call and being asked “when can you come in to be vaccinated next week?”.