@MercyBooth
There will be people watching this and thinking the vaccines are pointless. They are skating on thin ice.
Yes, agreed. I wish people would think about the bigger picture before coming out with stuff like this.
My theory is that some people adjusted fairly early on to the idea that vaccines weren’t going to come in and save us, they haven’t been able to adapt their view once vaccines did. So any bit of vaccine good news gets acknowledged late and grudgingly and only with a load of “ah well yes but, sadly, I’m afraid, it’s not actually that good” waffle. It’s a weird kind of denial.
“There likely won’t ever be a vaccine. We’ve never made one against a coronavirus.”
“Okay so we have, but not a human coronavirus, so there still probably won’t be.”
“Okay there probably will but it’ll take four years, at MOST, and that’s if we’re LUCKY.”
“Okay fine fine it looks like it’ll be faster than that but you do realise first-generation vaccines won’t be that good? We’ll be lucky to get a 60% efficacy rate.”
“Okay, so it’s actually very high. But! That doesn’t matter because the government will absolutely cock up the rollout and we’ll be waiting for years.”
“Okay the government hasn’t cocked up the rollout, but never mind that, did you know vaccines don’t prevent transmission at all? So it doesn’t matter how many of us get vaccinated because we’ll all still spread it
“Okay fine, maybe they do reduce transmission, but that’s not important, what’s important is that the vaccines don’t work against some of the variants!”
And now we seem to be up to Vaccine Denial Step 23: “Okay so they work very well against all known variants but BUT, what if a variant emerges tomorrow that they don’t work against, then they’re pretty much useless, so we can’t rely on vaccines to get us out of this.”
The vaccines are here, they work, we’re incredibly lucky to be in a country that can offer so many of them to us so fast, they’re the way out of this.