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by crispypotatoes 1606 days ago
> What makes you think vaccinating everybody will hasten the end of the pandemic?

It makes it harder for the disease to transmit from person to person

Less disease means less of the pandemic

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Maybe the pandemic would already be over if only the high-risk had gotten vaccinated?

Less immunization to the spike protein means less mutation of the spike protein

Less mutation of the spike protein means less hospitalization of those immunized directly to it

> Less immunization to the spike protein means less mutation of the spike protein

Virus mutation doesn’t work that way.

immunization wouldn't function as a form of evolutionary pressure?
Not if you only did the elderly, as you've suggested.