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After 2 years of Covid, I find it extremely suspect that the covid vaccines are still touted so hard as the only way to manage or exit the pandemic despite it c

After 2 years of Covid, I find it extremely suspect that the covid vaccines are still touted so hard as the only way to manage or exit the pandemic despite it clearly not being the silver bullet it was originally promised to be. The fact that the media and government can't talk about anything other than vaccines tells me people are not really interested in solving for anything other than selling more vaccines.

csee 5y ago
It's close to a silver bullet. Yes they don't completely stop transmission but who cares about that? All we should care about are severe cases and deaths. Add the new therapeutics on top and we actually do have the silver bullet. Vaccine + Paxlovid, if widely distributed enough, ends the pandemic, barring some new, more severe variant.
- president 5y ago
  My point was not so much about the vaccine itself but the fact that almost all conversation and chatter about the pandemic is centered around the vaccine and having to get it in order to get anything done (job, travel, etc). People act as if there is literally no other way for life to function like it did pre-2020 without vaccines.
  - csee 5y ago
    It's not surprising that all convo is around the vaccine, it's our strongest tool against it.
    - president 5y ago
      Personally, I don't think there has been a good faith dialog by our media and politicians about risk assessment, at-risk staying home (instead of everybody), therapeutics, treatment, or voluntary vaccinations. And maybe there has been some but the mRNA vaccines have completely dominated mindshare to a such a degree that leaves a bad taste in my mouth and has made me very cynical.
- ostenning 5y ago
  A silver bullet that causes myocarditis (which I have been diagnosed with after 2 pfizer shots) and that requires boosting every 5-6 months. Yep, Great silver bullet.
  - csee 5y ago
    How many deaths/complications will it prevent and how many deaths/complications will it cause? Isn't that ratio dramatically in the favor of vaccines?

csee 5y ago

It's close to a silver bullet. Yes they don't completely stop transmission but who cares about that? All we should care about are severe cases and deaths. Add the new therapeutics on top and we actually do have the silver bullet. Vaccine + Paxlovid, if widely distributed enough, ends the pandemic, barring some new, more severe variant.

president 5y ago
My point was not so much about the vaccine itself but the fact that almost all conversation and chatter about the pandemic is centered around the vaccine and having to get it in order to get anything done (job, travel, etc). People act as if there is literally no other way for life to function like it did pre-2020 without vaccines.
- csee 5y ago
  It's not surprising that all convo is around the vaccine, it's our strongest tool against it.
  - president 5y ago
    Personally, I don't think there has been a good faith dialog by our media and politicians about risk assessment, at-risk staying home (instead of everybody), therapeutics, treatment, or voluntary vaccinations. And maybe there has been some but the mRNA vaccines have completely dominated mindshare to a such a degree that leaves a bad taste in my mouth and has made me very cynical.
ostenning 5y ago
A silver bullet that causes myocarditis (which I have been diagnosed with after 2 pfizer shots) and that requires boosting every 5-6 months. Yep, Great silver bullet.
- csee 5y ago
  How many deaths/complications will it prevent and how many deaths/complications will it cause? Isn't that ratio dramatically in the favor of vaccines?