Vaccines will never eliminate Covid

[Mike E 11,739]

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/grant-vaccines-will-never-eliminate-covid-so-its-time-to-pivot-our-response?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1637705529

 

 

“The obvious, and generally accepted , conclusion is that current vaccine technologies will not stop viral circulation. This means that SARS-CoV-2 is destined to become the 5 ^th circulating coronavirus, with which everybody is eventually infected. Canada’s unspoken strategy has been that of COVID Zero , including strict border quarantines, widespread masking mandates, school closures and more. This is the same strategy that is being abandoned by Australia and New Zealand . The only option is to change to an endemic approach, which changes the emphasis on vaccination and prevention efforts.

 

This means that for people at risk of severe disease, vaccine is now more important. However, the incessant drive to an arbitrary percent of the population being vaccinated has ceased to make sense: It is not how many are vaccinated, but whom that matters.”

Edited November 24, 2021 by Mike E

[millefleur 5,046]

Were vaccines supposed to eliminate Covid? I thought the whole goal was supposed to bring the death rate and severe infection down?

 

Only one vaccine has eradicated a virus in the history of the world and that is smallpox. Anyone who thinks vaccines will eliminate the target disease is not living in reality. "Covid Zero" was a ridiculous strategy and anyone who adopted it has a poor understanding of how viruses and vaccines work. Politicians and governments might want something to happen because it sounds good and utopian, but that doesn't mean it's scientifically possible.

[jg121783 3,915]

38 minutes ago, millefleur said:

I thought the whole goal was supposed to bring the death rate and severe infection down?

There is no evidence that that has happened either. 

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Covid will never be eradicated.  It lives in cats, mink, and deer at a minimum already.  Primates have a high risk of catching it, but don't know if it's actually happened yet.  

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

16 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

Primates have a high risk of catching it, but don't know if it's actually happened yet.  

see if tbone is coughing.

Edited November 24, 2021 by Ban Hammer

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

2 hours ago, millefleur said:

Were vaccines supposed to eliminate Covid? I thought the whole goal was supposed to bring the death rate and severe infection down?

 

Only one vaccine has eradicated a virus in the history of the world and that is smallpox. Anyone who thinks vaccines will eliminate the target disease is not living in reality. "Covid Zero" was a ridiculous strategy and anyone who adopted it has a poor understanding of how viruses and vaccines work. Politicians and governments might want something to happen because it sounds good and utopian, but that doesn't mean it's scientifically possible.

Polio as well, almost eliminated via vaccine.  But I agree, Covid is more like the Flu, a permanent part of our landscape.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

1 minute ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

Polio as well, almost eliminated via vaccine.  But I agree, Covid is more like the Flu, a permanent part of our landscape.

"Almost" being the key word.  And for years, the polio vaccine caused more cases than the disease itself.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

2 hours ago, LIBrty4all said:

Primates have a high risk of catching it, but don't know if it's actually happened yet.  

We have surveyed 99.44% of the Central Chimpanzee population, and all is well.

In addition, the respondents all volunteered, with no prompting, "Let's Go, Brandon!"