the question is not "are cases up and are people getting nasty dose of covid?"

we know that.

they question is "why?"

people keep claiming it's the variant, but this does not seem to hold water esp on hosp and death rates.

i have a nasty suspicion that the vaccines are actually accelerating spread dramatically by allowing for very high VL, symptomatic carriers (who feel no symptoms BECAUSE they are vaccinated) that act like superspread bombs.

this is why i'd like to get to specifics on the variants and try to sort out what is what.

seems like a key piece of the puzzle, but i cannot quite find the shape of it.

but even if delta is an 11ish SAR vs an 8ish for alpha, cases are up WAY too much for it to be that alone.

something else is making them explode.