What happens if a vaccine resistant variant develops/how likely?

[Metabigot]

Will we back to square fucking one?
They can't put us through all this again surely

Who cares. Stop worrying about what could happen & just enjoy today. Tomorrow isn’t promised. Cross those bridges if it happens.

It’s not just vaccines anyway, it’s treatments as well which are getting better all the time. They’ll keep getting better too. And they are also working on a universal vaccine - very early days but look at what can achieved with money thrown at it. We got vaccines in less than a year!

www.clinicalomics.com/topics/patient-care/coronavirus/early-promise-for-universal-coronavirus-vaccine/

Also airborne viruses have no advantage of being deadly as they make the hosts so ill, they stay home and/or die rather than spreading it. So it’s highly unlikely a very deadly strain would be anything like the current versions are doing.

I did not vote conservative last election, and I dont plan to any time soon, I think they have made (a lot) of mistakes. I'm quite nervous of all restrictions being dropped and would personally avoid very crowded places such as busy pubs, sports venues or concerts and wouldnt take a foreign holiday (I'm fortunate that I dont work in these areas) but I'm not sure what options people think are the answer...? Restrictions as now, or tighter restrictions?
The best way from the perspective of the virus spreading would be for everyone to stay indoors (including key workers) and not mix outside your household.....but that wouldnt work practically or economically.

@Bobholll

Also airborne viruses have no advantage of being deadly as they make the hosts so ill, they stay home and/or die rather than spreading it. So it’s highly unlikely a very deadly strain would be anything like the current versions are doing.

I wish people would stop pressing this claptrap. Yes this is true for viruses such as Ebola which is not really infectious until symptoms develop. However it doesn’t matter with Covid. It could kill you stone dead when you get the first symptoms and it wouldn’t affect the transmission much as Covid is transmissible before symptoms. Therefore there is no evolutionary pressure to become a milder disease

According to the Sage 93 minutes of 7th July 'the combination of high prevalence and high levels of vaccination creates the conditions in which an immune resistant strain is most likely to emerge'.

The well established science is being ignored for short term political reasons and comforting half truths.

Low prevalence and high vaccination is fine. Ideal even. Low prevalence and low vaccination rates are not a cause of immediate concern. Especially with good control.

This government likes to focus on vaccination and ignore prevalence. So they feel superior to countries with tiny prevalence but lower vaccination rates. Control the narrative.

But this governments view that high and rising prevalence is OK because 'we' have high vaccination is arse over elbow and poses an international risk.