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by michaelmrose 1821 days ago
"- distributing a vaccines during (not before) a pandemic almost guarantees increased virulence (much like administering incomplete courses of antibiotics promotes antibiotic resistant bacteria)"

This is not how the world works. It is a risk of incomplete vaccination but no vaccinations carry an even higher risk due to rolling 100x more dice.

There is no reason to believe vaccination against one variant makes you more susceptible to others your body already contends with a soup of microscopic invaders more extensive than known to man.

Each mRNA payload is a partial work product of a spike protein rather than plans for a factory which means that the quantity of the spike protein produced is too small to be harmful unlike getting covid which would produce plenty.

If we don't vaccinate most people you will eventually get actual covid within a few years. You are selecting between the certainty of getting covid and vaccination or if you are selfish between everyone else getting vaccinated and you getting covid. However if too many are selfish this strategy fails.

We have every reason to suppose our analysis is correct and we are preventing millions of deaths by moving forward now. This is a privilege we have never had before we would have gladly done the same in different places and times throughout history.

You need to either educate yourself more thoroughly or consider listening to the overwhelming consensus of highly educated people.