Additionally, even with a lot of mutation the vaccines held up vs. Variant transmission prior to Omicron.
If the shot was holding up so well, why did the Government EUA boosters
less than a year after the shots first rolled out?
If it was holding up so well, why were the boosters released
prior to Omicron?
We were told that 2 shots made you fully vaccinated. we were told that 2 shots stopped the spread.
vax mandates were based on the transmission prevention of 2 shots.
Governments never planned on boosters, yet boosters came out less than a year later. why?
Here's the number of coronavirus vaccines we've rolled out in people prior to COVID. Zero.
exactly. why? because we didn't have anything that worked.
The data you're referencing is from animal vaccines, none of which are using mRNA tech.
what data?
the point is that humans didn't have a coronavirus vaccine because we couldn't develop one that worked due to coronavirus rapid mutation.
are you trying to say that previous coronavirus vaccines were ineffective because they didn't use mRNA? in that case, what data did we have to prove that the mRNA vaccines would be effective? Trial data? That only looked at case prevention, and not severity of issues?
But even granted all of that, having been vaccinated really dropped disease severity.
Disease severity only dropped in Ages > 60.
The Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) of hospitalization and death were effectively zero for ages under 60. And this is before considering potential adverse reaction risks.
And then when Omicron took over, case rates, hospitalization rates, and death rates were higher in vaxxed cohorts than unvaxxed cohorts, likely due to Original Antigenic Sin (OAS) / immunological imprinting from the spike-based vaxxes.
Again - all of this data is in this thread. You can read it again for yourself.
Regardless, even if severity reduction was the shot benefit, then the benefit is purely personal, not communal, so vax mandates on disease severity risk would be illogical.
The end game we're now coming to (and scientists hoped for far earlier) was something similar to the flu. A few waves a year, much much lower morbidity to the point no one cares.
that's called attenuation. it's natural virus evolution, independent of vax intervention, unless you have data that proves the vax contributed to this attenuation.
Had we rolled out the vaccine and not run into weirdo anti vaxxers we'd be here but with lower spread in summer 2021.
opinion and conjecture that contradicts the data