There won’t be an end to the lockdowns. You’re living in fantasyland if you think they’ll ease up restrictions.
The vaccine is no different than an annual flu vaccine. Millions of people choose not to get the flu vaccine. For something that is 99.97% survivable, I’ll take my chances thanks.
Wrong. First, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been demonstrated to be 95% effective. Seasonal flu vaccine is 40-60% effective depending on the year. Second, Influenza virus has multiple strains in circulation at any given time and all of them rapidly mutate. SARS-CoV-2 has an exceedingly small number of prevalent versions, all of which display remarkably stable genomes and all of which are susceptible to the same antibodies.
Based on past experience with SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, we can expect immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to last several years (minimum of 2-3 likely). Beyond that, seasonal flu vaccines are based on gen 1 (live attenuated) or gen 2 (recombinant) platforms. Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines are based on the gen 3 (mRNA) platform.
So in pretty much every significant way imaginable, these vaccines are absolutely nothing like the annual flu vaccine.
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