[fullstackchris]

Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are correct, and this is LITERALLY the case with existing virus boosters like Tetanus (actually the combined Tetanus / Polio / Diptheria / Pertusis). Many booster vaccines are recommended at regular intervals (some 5 years, some 10 years, some somewhere within that range). You wouldn't see people downvoting advice to get your Tetanus booster every 10 years! Yet they'll downvote such a suggestion about COVID boosters? I just don't understand. Its biology folks.

Actually this _really_ pisses me off that you were downvoted. Everyone is treating this vaccine plan (and I mean speaking from the US point of view vaccine plan) like it is the end of the pandemic permanantly. I can assure everybody that it is NOT. Indeed, there has been talk of these universal flu & cold vaccines for decades, but they have yet to be produced - just look how long the COVID vaccines took to be released worldwide when the first one was produced in January of 2020 (not a typo). Meanwhile, multiple countries in Africa, as well as all of India are still being ravaged by this virus - where is thier vaccine help? There is such a western centric twist on HackerNews that it really makes me question just how intelligent our "best programmers in the world" really are. From my initial view point, it seems everyone here understands the entire situtation no better than any other anectdotal theory from the average lurker on 4chan or reddit.

[colechristensen]

There is a problem with programmers thinking/acting/talking like they know quite a lot more than they do. Any thread on HN not about programming is sure to be full of confident ignorance (and honestly the programming threads too).

People don’t have very broad knowledge or education, a few do, but it can be hard to pick out.

[presidente20]

>It's biology folks? Read up about philosophy of science. Science has to be subjected to scrutiny and stand the test of time before we can be confident. Covid jab needs more time.