Cristacus: We are not at herd immunity, ok? Because the delta variant chuck has an arnot of six. Six minus one divided by six gets you 83%. And so and the omicron variant w, so this git would give me all three. He says we don't know exactly what the intrinsic or not, of the pathagan is. Cristacus: It's probably everybody's got m now. Well, y bu bute coming down with yo e. You don't have it, you're not cool. Miodont. But seriously, I do not want to encourage people to get infect i know i sit even jilk, not even to.
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