>>13393858I honestly think we should have just vaccinated the at-risk populations and let the virus circulate in the general public for another year or so. I mean this unironically.
I'm not a scientifically-inclined person at all, so take whatever I'm saying with a grain of salt.
But it kind of seems to me, from the basic stuff I do know, that it may have been better to let corona burn itself out in the general public rather than have two wildly different populations--vaccinated/unvaccinated--to bounce and gather traits between like Katamari pong balls.
Instead of letting natural immunity do what it can and has done for thousands of years--roll with and adapt to various viral mutations over the course of the organisms "life" span--we pre-emptively jumped the gun and are now making knee-capping people's immunoresponse capabilities by giving them a vaccination based on one variant while four more develop around the world.
Granted--what I'm saying is assuming that the virus would not naturally keep getting more and more lethal. As far as I'm aware, that's incredibly rare for a virus found in nature; but if that was the case with COVID, then either it's a new kind of natural virus, in which case we'd have to acknowledge parts of the bungled response were justified, and if it wasn't natural, that would point to a possible man-made origin, which would in turn raise an entirely new series of questions regarding both the virus AND the vaccine, in my opinion.
Like I said, I'm not a scientist, not even a hobbyist with this stuff. But when it comes to medicine, even the Ancient Greeks--whatever you think about them, they've been proven right time and time again about quite a bit throughout history--were pretty hesitant to get an entire population hooked on medication they'd be dependent upon, chemically or psychologically, possibly for the rest of their lives.
