Hint for the dunces: as the vaccination rate increases, you’d expect to see more and more cases of Covid in the vaccinated rather than the unvaccinated population given the vaccines are not 100% effective.

That is, if a country gets to an 80% vaccination rate, and depending on variant and other factors (behavior), you’d expect more than half the cases to be from the vaccinated rather than the unvaccinated population. This is even more true for the elderly, who respond far less well to the vaccines.

Remember this when you see panicky headlines; have already seen a few, but there will be many, many, many more. Also expect to see unethical journalists and politicians use selective sampling from elderly or other vulnerable but vaccinated populations to make the Delta variant look much worse than it is, all in service of keeping us indoors and locked inside prison countries.

Please don’t fall for this, though I know most of you will.