> about vaccines alone "ending" the pandemic The idea that vaccines "end" the pandemic was proposed when there was the hope or expectation that the vaccine cam

> about vaccines alone "ending" the pandemic The idea that vaccines "end" the pandemic was proposed when there was the hope or expectation that the vaccine campaign leads to a covid19-sterile population. My post and its parent post are _all_ about discussing what to do when sterilization is off the table (as appears to be the case with the vaccines we have), and I have no idea where your point fits into that. By the way: The Occam's razor answer to "someone, somewhere, might have not been telling the truth" is that people were expecting a better outcome and were mistaken. "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" and all that.