> > We have vaccines that work for a limited time > This is flat out FALSE. Allow me to rephrase: We have vaccines that protect us from severe diseases and ho

> > We have vaccines that work for a limited time > This is flat out FALSE. Allow me to rephrase: We have vaccines that protect us from severe diseases and hospitalizations (what you wrote after and which I mostly agree with) but its efficacy for milder symptoms wane after some months. And mild symptoms that translates into perma brain fog and other conditions is not something I want to take my chance with. Most likely, if the best case scenario happens, I'd still take they yearly covid shot. > but hospitalization rates and death rates are plummeting. That is the human humoral immune system working. Not what's happening in countries around me. UK (17%), France (175%), Germany, Finland are seeing hospitalizations rise up again. It remains to be seen if this is the last wave and you are right or if it's now the new normal. Whatever the cause, considering the damages a mild covid can have, this is not a virus you want to wreak havoc on your system too many times in your life. Killer t-cells are fun but you don't want your immune system in perpetual immune response mode. edit: regarding protection against severe form (we should be talking of consequences rather than form): vaccines had a ~95-97% efficacy. With Omicron, even tough it stays high, it doesn't stay that high. What worries me is that we are talking yearly flu shots but covid will likely require 6 months booster shots if you want to keep riding the vaccine for protection against all form/consequences.