07-27-2021, 01:52 PM
(07-27-2021, 12:20 PM)Big_Ern Wrote: Nope, my point was just like colds and flus we won't have herd immunity. It has already mutated numerous times and an Israeli study shows the Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective against delta. So I made an analogy that just like we don't have herd immunity from colds and flus that mutate we won't for this either. This is here to stay.
You can’t get immunity to over 200 different cold viruses with one shot and people aren’t going to take over 200 shots so they don’t get a cold. Which is a completely different situation than one shot for one virus.
We can’t achieve herd immunity for the flu because people won’t get a flu shot so it keeps mutating.
The Covid 19 virus can only mutate if it infects someone. If we could prevent infection we could prevent mutations. If we could prevent mutations we could prevent new strains. If we could prevent new strains we could prevent antigenic shift. If we could prevent antigenic shift we could prevent the need for annual boosters.
If only we had the technology to prevent infections, like some sort of magic shot we could give to healthy people so they wouldn’t get sick and the virus couldn’t mutate and then people like Grandma who can’t get the magic shot don’t need to worry about getting sick and possibly dying because the healthy people got Grandma’s back
Right now there are three types of people in this pandemic.
1) People like Grandma that can’t get the shot be it age, medical condition, lack of access, etc.
2) People who roll up there sleeves and say, “Don’t worry, Grandma. I got you.” And get the shot.
3) People who think, “Grandma’s old.” It’s not like Grandma ever did anything for them when they were younger and couldn’t take care of themselves. They’re too busy YOLOing to sacrifice less than an afternoon to get a shot recommended and deemed safe and effective by collective groups of experts in immunology and medicine than they’ll ever learn on social media.
