SARS-COV-2 is not one-size-fits-all virus. It rewrites itself frequently and can affect two people with similar pre-existing conditions entirely differently. Th

SARS-COV-2 is not one-size-fits-all virus. It rewrites itself frequently and can affect two people with similar pre-existing conditions entirely differently. This is the main cause of misinformation and hysteria vs. e.g. the common cold, which has relatively well-understood and deterministic symptoms. So in theory, both could be true, and also neither. We simply don't have enough data to say definitively how it really works long term, so any speculation is just that - speculation. What medical experts can do is be realistic about what to expect from vaccines, recovery, herd immunity, etc. - which they've done quite well. It's other forms of media, "fake" experts, etc. that bolt on more guarantees to vaccines that cause an uproar when they are broken, the biggest one being that vaccines prevent re-infection. The thing I've noticed the most throughout this pandemic is that people are incredibly short sighted. Explaining how vaccines work, and how they help to prevent spread and variant breakthrough in communities, collectively, is something that people can't seem to accept. They're too concerned with "well it doesn't affect me, so why bother?" without realizing that by getting vaccine they help to end the pandemic sooner, which does impact them directly. Everyone is tired of the pandemic - medical staff especially - and people not getting vaccinated despite having pretty strong data right now that there are minimal-to-no side effects in the general case is ultimately prolonging the pandemic since new variants keep emerging from mutations in, presumably, unvaccinated individuals spreading shit around.