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by bamboozled 1809 days ago
> The other is that vaccines are unlikely to ever stop the spread of the virus but that's not a bad thing since we will be increasingly able to prevent deaths

Letting it escape is not a bad thing? Are you kidding?

Think of what the Flu costs the world each year, now this on top ?

The only people who benefit from an escape are big pharmaceutical companies who will now sell you a 2 for 1 package, yearly flu shot and yearly Covid19 shot.

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I think he meant that eradicating COVID is a fool's errand like eradicating common cold or flu is, but it's not the end of the world because it will be like seasonal flu, dangerous only for elderly/sick people.