The hope is covid becomes endemic, instead of pandemic.Even with seasonal shots, we're never going to get the mix just right to end covid in anythign approaching the way we ended measles
Clearly is not going to happen
Yes each flu shot they have a chance to end influenza too, hasn't happened yet. Don't hold your breathe, you'll die.
They couldn't even justify* bringing a cold vaccine to market pre 2020. That's how hard it is. It's not going to happen. We are not going to vax our way out of this. As we knew in 2019. Was never on the table to anyone sane. And again even if they could. Animal reservoirs would ruin it and we would have this problem again sooner or later.
edit - and that shingles vax is a joke. Every old man i've ever met who got it...Got shingles right after lol
Not a huge sample size but still. Fuck that shingles vax i'll take my chances
Covid will likely persist,
but from community immunity... between those vaccinated and those already infected and recovered....we can reduce yearly deaths from 500,000 a year, to something similar to the influenza virus, less than 50,000 deaths a year.
That's good enough, to bring us nearly back to normal living....!
This is what we all want!