(02-17-2022, 05:05 PM)jeffster Wrote: Hence why I used the word "If". And if it holds true that it IS 100% effective against serious illness, despite mutations, then it's a game changer. And since it's a standard vaccine, the blowhards can stop complaining. But, yeah, a lot of "Ifs". In including "If" the vaccine doesn't have serious side effects like the Astra-Zeneca one. Hopefully it's as good as they claim.
I'd be curious to know how many anti-vaxxers get this vaccine considering it has a different technology than the rest which are approved here. But sadly, I doubt it'll convince many people. Anti-vax people are dumb...very dumb
...like not even knowing how to tie your shoes dumb. Not knowing left from right dumb. Not knowing you need to drink water to survive dumb. These people are truly stupid. They'll still invent new reasons as to why Novavax will in fact kill everyone on the planet or how it's some great conspiracy which alien Reptilians and pharmaceutical companies are using it to turn us all into gay communists with dark skin or some other nonsense. There's always going to be a portion of the population we can't connect with and at this point it's pointless to really care about them. Dumb is dumb...just be content knowing these kind of people are able to cross the street without causing chaos.
I think this vaccine has more importance to the world in regards to distribution logistics. At this point, it's not the crack baby anti-vax conspiracy freaks with 7 brain cells left who we need to worry about. Those kind of people are too far gone to bother with. Instead, vaccines like this may become useful tools in vaccinating the developing world or nations where they may not have great access to sophisticated refrigeration (Mongolia or Bolivia, for example, where much of the population lives in rural areas). The more people vaccinated who live in harsher environments the better, because it means fewer chances of concernable mutations occuring.