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> The current variants are weakened versions of the virus that they are essentially the vaccine. If that were true we would not be seeing 2,500+ deaths/day in
by vvanders 5y ago
> The current variants are weakened versions of the virus that they are essentially the vaccine.
If that were true we would not be seeing 2,500+ deaths/day in the US which was higher than the initial first wave(2.2k/day) and is approaching the previous peak(~3k/day).
- vmception 5y agoThe overwhelming majority of those deaths are not from breakthroughs of double vaccinated or boosted people. So the prior vaccination effort has reached its plateau of interest and efficacy, and thats going to be good enough. As in, it will have to be good enough because thats whats happening. Everyone’s made their bed. So to ask more of the actually compliant people - most of which wouldn't have ever noticed they had covid even during unvaccinated hardcore delta times - is not really that convincing. Even the fear of “long covid” has dissipated, as it looks like that will never be quantified and both vaccinated and unvaccinated have experience with actual covid by now. Add in a slight and unnecessary myocarditis risk and that introduces just enough unnecessary downside to make another shot from two seasonal covids ago a hard pass.