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If you get vaccinated now, you're effectively consenting to 6-monthly booster shots for life: https://www.axios.com/cdc-fully-covid-vaccinated-definition-updat

If you get vaccinated now, you're effectively consenting to 6-monthly booster shots for life: https://www.axios.com/cdc-fully-covid-vaccinated-definition-update-5c2312d9-64f4-4bb7-a289-04c00889a573.html https://www.axios.com/cdc-fully-covid-vaccinated-definition-... https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/which-countries-vaccination-expiry-date-b1940332.html https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/which-c...

Arnt 5y ago
You're making a couple of unwarranted assumptions here. Or more. First, you're assuming that the next-generation vaccines aren't going to improve. Second, that contracting corona while vaccinated doesn't give you good and long-lasting protection (even if you don't even notice the infection). Third, that booster shots are a problem at all.
- Factorium 5y ago
  Moral hazard: an improved vaccine will reduce future business (more booster shots). There is absolutely no incentive for big pharma to make better vaccines. Long-lasting protection from antibodies is irrelevant because political authorities are already ignoring natural immunity. The booster shot isn't the problem per se, its that anyone who doesn't take them will be segregated from society due to vaccine mandates.
  - Arnt 5y ago
    Is finetuning vaccine protection duration even possible (in this case or generally)?
  - mariuolo 5y ago
    > Moral hazard: an improved vaccine will reduce future business (more booster shots). There is absolutely no incentive for big pharma to make better vaccines. You assume the pharmaceutical industry always acts like a cartel and its members aren't in competition with each other: if one of them created a more long-lasting vaccine, it would capture a larger share of the market. There's your incentive.
    - Arnt 5y ago
      And indeer, Curevac (the mRNA startup that lost against Biontech and Moderna) has published this: https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/10/12/curevac-to-shift-focus-of-covid-19-vaccine-development-to-second-generation-mrna-technology/ https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/10/12/curevac-to-shift-focus... All three of those companies know that the two with the best vaccines made billions, the third made a loss.
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Arnt 5y ago

You're making a couple of unwarranted assumptions here. Or more. First, you're assuming that the next-generation vaccines aren't going to improve. Second, that contracting corona while vaccinated doesn't give you good and long-lasting protection (even if you don't even notice the infection). Third, that booster shots are a problem at all.

Factorium 5y ago
Moral hazard: an improved vaccine will reduce future business (more booster shots). There is absolutely no incentive for big pharma to make better vaccines. Long-lasting protection from antibodies is irrelevant because political authorities are already ignoring natural immunity. The booster shot isn't the problem per se, its that anyone who doesn't take them will be segregated from society due to vaccine mandates.
- Arnt 5y ago
  Is finetuning vaccine protection duration even possible (in this case or generally)?
- mariuolo 5y ago
  > Moral hazard: an improved vaccine will reduce future business (more booster shots). There is absolutely no incentive for big pharma to make better vaccines. You assume the pharmaceutical industry always acts like a cartel and its members aren't in competition with each other: if one of them created a more long-lasting vaccine, it would capture a larger share of the market. There's your incentive.
  - Arnt 5y ago
    And indeer, Curevac (the mRNA startup that lost against Biontech and Moderna) has published this: https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/10/12/curevac-to-shift-focus-of-covid-19-vaccine-development-to-second-generation-mrna-technology/ https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/10/12/curevac-to-shift-focus... All three of those companies know that the two with the best vaccines made billions, the third made a loss.

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