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If this is the case the new variants should be renamed COVID-20, COVID-21, etc

Good question. I dunno. My "mutation" guess is admittedly simplistic.

If you bodies immune system can not address mutations, why should we believe vaccine could?

Personally, I don't. I think therapeutics and a well-established regimen for mitigating the affects of the virus are the best solution. Unfortunately, the media and medical community like Dr. Fauci have dangled the vaccine carrot in front of the public and most have bought into it.

To me, if they can't eradicate the flu, what on Earth makes them think they can eradicate COVID?

A few comments. Lots and lots of viruses infect, get defeated, and then can reinfect because immunity disappears.

Antibodies do not particularly “linger”. Specific cells create them. Antibodies do their stuff for a while and disappear quickly, because they are not immortal. It is the cells that create them that have to retain memory and replace the antibodies, and . . . there’s no law of the universe that says they will retain that memory for long periods. The titration density of antibodies fades. Memory cells don’t bother creating more. This titration measurement is how one knows how long a vaccine lasts. This is why 10 yrs between tetanus shots.

Stop thinking the virus will burn out. That’s another thing there is no law of the universe commanding it. Smallpox virus was with mankind for millenia and never burned out. Only human intervention erased it.