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Maniac64 posted...

From what I gathered his argument was basically:
A) we dont even know what the FDA hasn't disclosed that is preventing it from getting approved so its risky to get it.

But more importantly
B) the mutations happen because people get vaccinated and the virus wants to survive. Therefore the more vaccinations the more likely it will evolve into something that completely defeats the vaccine and is way more deadly. So we are better off not getting vaccinated and trying to survive the current less deadly version of COVID rather than getting vaccinated and later getting the way more deadly super COVID that ignores the vaccine.

This all started because Facebook fact checked a video he posted sayi ng masks and vaccines dont work. He super anti-fact checkers

This argument presumes that variants that are more vaccine-resistant are also more deadly to unvaccinated people. Obviously variants that are more vaccine-resistant are more deadly to vaccinated people, but that's precisely because they resist vaccines. If the solution is to not use vaccines, that won't be relevant.

I would agree that a stable equilibrium would be something like where the flu has gotten over the last 100 years - very high case counts but low mortality. This is an equilibrium that works for both humans and the flu. And flu vaccines do not appear to have caused the flu virus to evolve to be deadlier - to evade the vaccines, yes, but not to be deadlier for the unvaccinated.

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