Milestone news today
Last year : "This pandemic won't go away until a vaccine is invented and administered to the population."
Last month : "Administering the vaccine is underway, and the we hope to celebrate 4th of July Independence day this year without a lockdown."
Today's news
Not only Pfizer, one of the top two vaccines now being administered, is ineffective against South African variant, rather the vaccine taker gets 8 times more likely to catch the virus, than those that haven't taken it at all.
Quote "But among patients who had received two doses of the vaccine, the variant’s prevalence rate was eight times higher than those unvaccinated – 5.4 percent versus 0.7 percent."
Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera - 3-May-2021 11:40 am
South African variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine: StudyIsraeli study shows Pfizer-BioNTech shot less potent against B.1.351 variant than other COVID-19 mutations.
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Let that sink in. The virus gets astonishingly orders of magnitude more active inside those that have taken the vaccine, than those that haven't.
Brace
So we are between a rock and hard place. Dawn of the start of decay. And God knows where things will end. No light in sight.
I started this post with the dream from last year how vaccines are going to save us. That dream is now dust in the air.