Fortunately, we already have multiple vaccines that are based on multiple working mechanisms. Also some vaccines, especially the mRNA based ones, can be adapted quite fast.
It's always something, isn't it? Some people just can't let this go. The fact is, the vaccines we have work against all these variants.
When we had outages at work, we'd amp up our monitoring to 11 and when the outage was over the amount of noise generated by the logs had the tendency to spook people. They'd see a bunch of errors that were always present in the system but never noticed because the logs weren't as high. You'd have to remind yourself "yeah, this stuff always happens... we just have our monitoring cranked up and adrenaline still flowing".
It takes a little while to mentally recover from a bad outage. I suspect something similar is happening here. Society has its monitoring amped up and getting freaked out by every little thing the monitoring is showing.
> Society has its monitoring amped up and getting freaked out by every little thing the monitoring is showing
More importantly, media and politicians want to get everything they can out of it. So many now entrenched interests' power ends when the fear over Covid ends, so they want to play up any angle they can that keeps it as a top of mind fear.
> It takes a little while to mentally recover from a bad outage. I suspect something similar is happening here.
There's at least 3 things
- Generally speaking, people prefer to read bad news
- It helps with the drive to get vaccinated or force everyone to get vaccinated (big pharma, big government, statists, busybodies)
- As long as China Flu remains a threat, they can maintain lockdowns and state of emergency, which also means they can spend on vote buying as much as they like
The alleged resistance is vs CoronaVac, which we already have good reason to believe isn't very effective in general.
This doesn't say much about resistance vs 2 dose Pfizer/Modern/AstraZenca (which would be most worrying), or J&J/Novavax. That's what's important to check. Experience until now was that the mRNA vaccines could handle all variants, and JJ/Nova are apparently fine too.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 31.9 ms ] threadWhen we had outages at work, we'd amp up our monitoring to 11 and when the outage was over the amount of noise generated by the logs had the tendency to spook people. They'd see a bunch of errors that were always present in the system but never noticed because the logs weren't as high. You'd have to remind yourself "yeah, this stuff always happens... we just have our monitoring cranked up and adrenaline still flowing".
It takes a little while to mentally recover from a bad outage. I suspect something similar is happening here. Society has its monitoring amped up and getting freaked out by every little thing the monitoring is showing.
More importantly, media and politicians want to get everything they can out of it. So many now entrenched interests' power ends when the fear over Covid ends, so they want to play up any angle they can that keeps it as a top of mind fear.
There's at least 3 things
- Generally speaking, people prefer to read bad news
- It helps with the drive to get vaccinated or force everyone to get vaccinated (big pharma, big government, statists, busybodies)
- As long as China Flu remains a threat, they can maintain lockdowns and state of emergency, which also means they can spend on vote buying as much as they like
This doesn't say much about resistance vs 2 dose Pfizer/Modern/AstraZenca (which would be most worrying), or J&J/Novavax. That's what's important to check. Experience until now was that the mRNA vaccines could handle all variants, and JJ/Nova are apparently fine too.