The Covid vaccine/herd immunity analytics are starting to come in. The good news is that nationally the US has done better than might have been suspected a year ago....not as good as Israel but better than Europe and most of Asia. Surprisingly, neither invention, production, nor distribution, proved unsurmountable. Indeed it appears that were it not for "politics" we might well have reached "post-covid" this year. Over simplified, but it seems that the virus mutating asap just can't stay viable with 75+ percent of the available transmission agents (humans) protected either naturally or by vaccination. Historically these levels were achievable without extraordinary difficulty, but in the 21st Century every aspect of human existence is political, and...
Of course these historic viral wars were before the "High Red" people realized that Total Red had been numerically overwhelmed by Total Blue, thereby threatening virtually all historical power structures ending the longstanding culture that had served High Red so well. Not to be vanquished by unequal birth rates and uncontrolled immigration, High Red responded by 50 years of "psychological/subtle war" seeking by all non-corporal means to maintain their base while containing Blue expansion. No strategies were off-limits....not even Covid Death.
Blinkist forward, High Red poisoned the vaccine story with religion/conspiracy talk feeding anti-liberal, anti woke, all things quantitative, stories and myths. Yes, it frightened some Low Blue, but early numbers suggest that urban vaccine rates are fairly Red/Blue equal. Not so for rural Low Red dominated communities. Here in my town, running on fundamentalism and country music, we are having a very hard time selling vaccine. Perhaps it is that the "daniel/lion" meme is strong, or that disdain for elitism/technology is overpowering...who knows!
What we do know is that when, we the vaccinated country people, both Blue and Red, run out of immunity we sure hope that Pfizer and Moderna have a "booster" ready to go...cause there ain't gonna be no "herd immunity" in our less than 40% vaccinated "neck of the woods".