No, we are not asking for instant vaccines, but instead want to let covid-19 die out like all other epidemics have, from herd immunity. When Fauci said that would means 2.4 million deaths, it should be clear by now he was totally wrong.
The lethalit of covid is only 0.15 and not the 10% Fauci claimed.
The majority of the population is already inherently immune we can tell from how so many are asymptomatic, so the number needing to recover for acquired immunity is less than 10% what Fauci claimed.
And by variolation, (deliberate infection) of the young, we can prevent the elderly from getting it and dying, so can reduce the death toll by another factor of 40 at least.
We do not want a vaccine for something that likely is never coming back, and where the vaccine is an experiment in gene splicing.
You don't
know anything you just opined. It's all speculation.
I don't think you have any idea about the potential of epidemic disease, because medicine managed to kill off so many grossly lethal diseases before you were born. And before they started making a come-back. We ain't seen nothin' yet, I suspect.
If you think variolation is in some sense BETTER than vaccination, I know you don't read anything on disease. Variolation is desperation, the answer to stopping a smallpox epidemic with at least 30% fatality, and probably worse. Variolation kills a fair percentage of the inoculated, just somewhat less than an epidemic usually does. Because it uses --- the disease itself! Scratched into the hand in the
hope that it won't spread so much centrally. And there is no reason to suppose that would work with COVID: it was only ever used with smallpox, that I ever read. If the vaccine fails, so will variolation: the vaccine failing would mean extensive, frequent mutation like influenza does, and then we have a whole nother problem.
Don't get the shot if you don't want to! So far it isn't compulsory (if it becomes so, I'll take evasive action). I think this is a case of "mind our own business." People can do whatever they want, is my feeling about this.
WRONG!
There is not a single epidemic ever that was ended by medicine once it started.
They were all ended by herd immunity.
Event the 1948 Polio epidemic was essentially over by the time the Salk vaccine became available in 1957.
Vaccines prevent NEW epidemics, and not once have ever ended an epidemic in progress, because they take too long to make.
And it is a lie to claim this is just "my opinion".
Anyone can study the history of all epidemics without a degree in virology, and anyone will discover they ALL were ended by herd immunity.
That includes the Spanish flu, SARS, Hong Kong flu, Asian flu, Avian flu etc.
Obviously covid is no different.
It only kills about 30k a month, just like all the seasonal flu.
It would only have killed 30,000 if we had let it die out in March from herd immunity.
The ONLY reason it is still killing people is we deliberately kept it around by conserving hosts by "flattening the curve".
Obviously variolation is vastly better than vaccination because it is QUICK.
We could easily have done variolation in March, and ended it in March.
Waiting a year for a vaccine in incredibly STUPID, and it killed an additional quarter million people who did NOT at all have to die.
NO, variolation does NOT at all kill a significant number of those it is done to, because you filter and only accept healthy/young volunteers who are at LEAST 40 times more likely to survive than the random averages.
It is almost exclusively those over 70 who ARE dying.
And no, variolation is not just an 1800s thing for smallpox.
It is ancient, going back to the Egyptians.
And you do NOT scratch a hand, but use a swab to the sinuses.
And it does not then spread, since you know who and when infection was caused, so quarantine of the infected easily prevent spread back to the vulnerable who you are trying to protect in the first place.
And no, a vaccine failure is almost assured because it has been manufactured by gene splicing instead of cultured in a vat. While variolation is bound to work since we already have the majority showing asymptomatic evidence of inherent immunity.
And by the way, if you want to seem informed, do NOT call new variants, a "mutation".
Medical people who use that word only show ignorance.
A mutation is a random event, like radiation damage to the protein.
That is not how variants happen.
They happen because 2 different viruses inject their own RNA into the nucleus of the same cell.
This is then a combination of 2 long existing and viable viruses, so is better described as a hybrid.
This happens often and quickly.
Mutation on the other hand, take millions of years because they are almost always defunct.