Anyone who pushes for a vaccine for a virus with a 98% recovery rate has no standing. They are pushing for some other reason
I’ve heard the argument that vaccines are generally effective for diseases like measles and typhus, so we had every reason to believe vaccines would work the same for SARS-COV-2.
First of all we don’t have a full-bodied vaccine for targeting this virus, just for pieces of it. My understanding is the entire virus has not yet been isolated.
Even if we did have a complete vaccine, there would still be a giant difference. Measles and typhus occur in clusters, outbreaks within limited areas. The vaccines do part of the job and isolation does another part.
This virus was suddenly everywhere at once, isolation is not viable, and vaccine alone with no available assist from isolation cannot eradicate this endemic virus on its own. The vaccines CAN, however, slap it around and make it meaner, and create the need for new vaccines. Which, have no fear, are in the works this very moment.