[2aProtectsTheRest]

"Don’t forget the basics of how viruses work: They mutate (change) meaning that a vaccine that is effective now will be worthless later. To stay immune, you have to take a new vaccine to guard against the new strains. These means endless shutdowns since vaccines take time to make and distribute and get into people’s bodies."

Yup, just like polio, smallpox, whooping cough, etc. They just keep changing and making the vaccines worthless.

Oh wait, that didn't happen; we eradicated those from the western world because the vaccines actually work.

[Myrddin]

Yup, just like polio, smallpox, whooping cough, etc. They just keep changing and making the vaccines worthless. Oh wait, that didn't happen; we eradicated those from the western world because the vaccines actually work.

A poor counter example. None of those are RNA viruses. They are stable diseases with a stable, standard attenuated organism as the vaccine antigen. We don't have vaccines for the common cold because it comes from RNA viruses in the same family as SARS-CoV-2. It's not a stable antigen target.

[Kevmo]

my whole family caught Whooping Cough when I was bout 5 years old. That disease is NOT eradicated.

[Hieronymus]

Those vaccines were real vaccines—and this is much more like the flu, so far as I can tell.

Apples and turnips.