I get the sentiment, and I agree that in extreme ciecumstances risky decisive behaviour is justified.
What I don't understand, and I don't get why this isn't a bigger talking point, is why we thought a vaccine would work at all.
By the time serious talk about developing a vaccine was underway, we were already on the second major variant of the virus, and there were around 1000 sub-variants that had also been observed. By the time the vax was released for Alpha, we were on Omnicron and Alpha was basically extinct.
There will never be a vaccine for SARS-COV2 because, even if you do everything by the book, test it to the nines, a new strain will bypass it before it can be developed. In much the same way that, despite giving the flu shot for 30 years, flu rates haven't noticably dropped.
Fundamentally, the issue isn't so much that a vaccine could work, in theory it can, and you can develop vaccines for multiple strains. It's just that this thing was never a vaccine in the first place.
Novavax is the only group producing an actual protein based vaccine that could actually create immunity. So what did the FDA do? Ban it's dispersal to the American public by refusing to give it the emergency status the fucking mRNA ones got until fucking September of last year, even though it had been available since January of 2021.
I get the sentiment, and I agree that in extreme ciecumstances risky decisive behaviour is justified.
What I don't understand, and I don't get why this isn't a bigger talking point, is why we thought a vaccine would work at all.
By the time serious talk about developing a vaccine was underway, we were already on the second major variant of the virus, and there were around 1000 sub-variants that had also been observed. By the time the vax was released for Alpha, we were on Omnicron and Alpha was basically extinct.
There will never be a vaccine for SARS-COV2 because, even if you do everything by the book, test it to the nines, a new strain will bypass it before it can be developed. In much the same way that, despite giving the flu shot for 30 years, flu rates haven't noticably dropped.
Fundamentally, the issue isn't so much that a vaccine could work, in theory it can, and you can develop vaccines for multiple strains. It's just that this thing was never a vaccine in the first place.
Novavax is the only group producing an actual protein based vaccine that could actually create immunity. So what did the FDA do? Ban it's dispersal to the American public by refusing to give it the emergency status the fucking mRNA ones got until fucking September of last year, even though it had been available since January of 2021.