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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Covid is not an influenza virus. "Flu" is short for "influenza virus." COVID-19 is short for "COronaVIrus Disease."
The veterinarian who wrote his treatise warning against the vaccine - if you were actually paying attention around the time that was written - was mostly referring to the concept that in order for a vaccine against COVID-19 to be effective, MOST people need to be vaccinated. There was no way to develop, AND test, AND manufacture, AND distribute a vaccine for COVID-19 in time for "most" people to be immunized.
That meant the virus would have had a LOT of time to mutate.
He was absolutely spot-on right, in that. But it wasn't because people COULDN'T vaccinate in time. It's because they CHOSE not to vaccinate in time.
The warnings were coming from everywhere - you get vaccinated as soon as you are eligible, as soon as the vaccine is available to you. If you don't, the virus can mutate.
Too many people said "screw that, I'll take my chances." And the virus did EXACTLY as predicted: it mutated.
If people took the "herd immunity" concept more seriously THEN, the virus wouldn't have had the opportunity to mutate NOW.
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The common cold is also a coronavirus but I get your meaning. The way I understood his theory was that because the vaccine was specific to the spike protein in COVID the body's immune response would be vulnerable to not only the variants but other illnesses because the COVID vaccine is so powerful it overwhelms everything else. I don't think we've seen that yet, however, we aren't in cold and flu season.