Variants.....Keeping us company since the dawn of man. Fauci just likes to have the newer variants go back even farther to the early dawn of bats.
I never got the flu shot until 6-7 years ago, as a recommendation from my endocrinologist, but I won't be getting it ever again. I'll be 74 soon, worked for 25 years in NY State's prison system. Came into contact with all sorts of people with all sorts of diseases. Lived through the introduction of AIDS in the system in the mid 80's, and the drug-resistant strain of TB that went through the prisons. I never got sick a day in all those years. I live alone, and have basically been social distancing since I retired in 2003. I've driven to Indiana and back twice over the past year. Hit just about every rest stop on the way out and back in New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Stayed in hotels in Ohio, ate out in restaurants, shopped in various grocery and retail stores with my son during my trips, and haven't caught a damn thing. They can take their vaccines and shove them.