Originally Posted by
DeltaboundRedux
Well, yeah, of course. Apples and oranges, false equivalency. You do see that, right?
There is literally no end in sight to a 3-6 month boosting protocol for a vaccine that isn't changing and a virus that is.
The virus doesn't actually mutate that much, it just had a whole lot of opportunity due to the pandemic. That opportunity is declining, and as far as I've heard there have been no new "game changer" variants since delta (not saying it can't happen, just that it's not likely to happen a lot).
Also it appears possible or likely that significant mutations only occur in very rare patients who have extended covid due to immune issues... that's good because it means that the source is easy to identify and rare enough to largely control.
Worst case it will settle out to annual boosters, possibly modified for any variants (just like the flu).
Originally Posted by
DeltaboundRedux
No one at the start of this thing every hinted at this vaccine every 3-6 months for the indefinite future. Doesn't it bother you that there is literally no research available for the long term effects of that?
There is no "long-term effect" for a discrete biological event. It's not cumulative, it does it's thing and is gone and the immune response then starts to decline... if it didn't wrong within days or a couple weeks, it's not going to. That's just how the biology works.