Ironically, this is the real theatre. Paul out here projecting.
However, this discourse got me curious. Can one of y’all help me out here? Believe me, I ask this in good faith.
So I understand that there are variants to covid just like the flu has variants. Also similar to the flu, this one vaccine will not immunize you 100% to the covid variants. But with the flu, we do not attempt to make a vaccine for each and every variant, but only the dominant one for the season. And that comes with no masks.
However, I also understand that covid is novel and several times more deadly than the flu, which means we can’t treat it like we treat influenza because people will die at higher numbers than influenza if we do so. But my disconnect is here, what is the super plan for 2022 or even 2023 if new variants will continue to spring up ad-infinitum ?
Is the planet doomed to hold these restrictions on masks, gatherings, etc forever? This is the part that has me lost. I don’t really see the end game unless they can reverse engineer an active vaccine or a new immune response that dynamically simulates, responds to, or adapts to variants.
Please forgive me for thinking out loud. I find it helps with problem solving . The only other alternative I can see is maybe playing the waiting game. Perhaps enter a scenario where everyone is immunized to the biggest strain, then the second biggest, then third biggest, etc until the rate of immunity is higher than the rate of COVID evolution for new strains. this seems kinda speculative to me, cause I doubt you could get new vaccines developed and distributed in time to combat the exponential growth and mutation rate of natural strains. But it’s still better than the republican solution of letting people die out in a restriction free world.
Any thoughts? Am I right on any of this?