Day 714: Prisoner’s Dilemma

The bad cat has some interesting speculation about bad vaccines as a prisoner's dilemma:

this [prisoner's dilemma thought experiment] is obviously a gross oversimplification and the reality of secondary attack rates etc, but it raises a potentially REALLY interesting question:

is omicron really this much more contagious or is it vaccines MAKING it this much more contagious?

i have not yet looked at this, but it seems a promising avenue to explore perhaps by comparing the testing adjusted rates of omi growth in some high vaxx vs low vaxx places of similar demographics.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up only one percent today.