Vallance says we will need additional vaccines forever and a day to combat new variants of Covid. And says we might need to bring in new restrictions NEXT winter.
This raises two points:
1. There is an expectation that there WILL be future variants which need new vaccines i.e. that they are serious enough that we will not be able to simply rely on collective acquired immunity to protect against them;
2. By extension, there will be a gap between new variants being identified and assessed as to seriousness and new vaccines being produced, tested, approved and administered. That means we will never be shot of lockdowns. Ever.
1. There is an expectation that there WILL be future variants which need new vaccines i.e. that they are serious enough that we will not be able to simply rely on collective acquired immunity to protect against them;
Normal for a virus.
2. By extension, there will be a gap between new variants being identified and assessed as to seriousness and new vaccines being produced, tested, approved and administered. That means we will never be shot of lockdowns. Ever.
Not true. Its what we do with Flu every single year. mRNA vaccines have potential to make this process much much faster.
That's precisely the point - it isn't flu, as we've been told, and they haven't seen fit to deal with it as flu has been dealt with (even with extreme numbers of deaths from flu, and despite vaccines) in previous years.
Vallance said tonight that restrictions would be needed next winter. They've already admitted it.
