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Smh at the people that still don't understand vaccines and are now surprised by developments, while I knew from day 1 that all of these would have to happen, or else the whole process would be futile.
If you had a flu vaccine 20 years ago, you can't call yourself "fully vaccinated" against the flu. All vaccines lose their effect in time (at different rates depending on the disease).
The initial double-shot pfizer/moderna or single-shot astrazeneca was never meant to be a permanent "fully vaccinated". Anyone who thought that was the case, or that thought that was what doctors were saying, are morons.
You were always temporarily "fully vaccinated" until scientists, by tracking the efficacy, realized at what rate the vaccine loses it's effect against this brand new disease. Only now do they have some amount of data to be able to make very rough estimates that maybe you're "fully vaccinated" for X months after the vaccine, after which you need a booster to continue to be "fully vaccinated" for another X months.
None of this is new. None of this is unique to covid, and if you knew anything about vaccines, none of this would surprise you or revolt you.
Is the efficacy of the vaccine worse than I hoped for? Absolutely.
Am I happy with how they implemented the boosters? Absolutely not. My expectation from day 1 was that by now a newer/updated vaccine was available that would account for the newer covid strands, and that the booster was made with this updated vaccine.
Did I still get the booster?
Yes.
Why?
Because, while absolutely a worse option than what I believe needed to happen (i.e. an updated vaccine), it's still better than nothing.
I have my own complains about this shit fest, but at least mine are grounded in reality and a basic understanding of science, and they don't blind me into religiously being against vaccination.
You can be disgruntled with how poorly these vaccines perform, be against vaccine mandates and disgusting discriminatory practices, and still be able to correctly assess the lower risk option to make.
>Is the efficacy of the vaccine worse than I hoped for? Absolutely.
Dang that's the understatement of the year
@RustyCrab @alyx I mean, the vaccines were science experiments created in 8 months. I think people had way too high expectations for them.
@RustyCrab @alyx I don’t, but that’s bc my state didn’t do that
@RustyCrab @alyx yeah, where I live already had the mandate until like, March or April of last year scheduled and I think they shortened it a couple of weeks and that’s about it.
>A product that was developed quickly will be worse than you hoped for
*brain imploding, creating a black hole that swallows the universe*
@alyx lol