The original COVID virus is practically defunct. It was outcompeted by other strains. Effectiveness is sharply declining. Ten years is much longer than ten mon

The original COVID virus is practically defunct. It was outcompeted by other strains. Effectiveness is sharply declining. Ten years is much longer than ten months, which is how long the corona vaccines have been around. Waning immunity is not a red herring. The entire mass vaccination strategy was predicated on the idea that everyone would get one or two doses and the virus would be defeated and we go back to normal. Spare me this motte/bailey sophistry. Measles: again you conflate a disease that attacks children with a disease that does not. The 0.2-1% mortality figure for measles is almost entirely concentrated among children. Rate of child death from corona is negligible. You bring up 700 dead children from corona -- yes this is a tragedy, but it is comparable to influenza. A bad flu season will see something like 500-600 under-18s die in USA over course of a year (and is your 700 figure for a single year, or summed across both pandemic years?). I am sorry but we cannot shut down society for this.