Goweresque
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Quite startling that the collective scientific community with expertise in vaccines don't know this. You'd think it's precisely the kind of core knowledge they would have, around which all the work they do on respiratory viruses is built. You'd think it's something that's taught in first year at university.
Really? They've completely overlooked the 'fact' that vaccinating seniors and school kids every year does not actually have any effect? That's a ridiculous claim.
The immunity to old strains held by the aged population is the only thing preventing them making a resurgence in the wider population? Really?
Surely as strains migrate away from the one a child was innoculated with at first infection, by the time the child is forty or fifty, they must be very much at risk of severe infection if they have not been able to modify their immune response since childhood.
What cobblers.
Just google 'Original antigenic sin' and start reading some of the many papers on the subject you will find. Its a real thing, and the fact that it has been overlooked (or rather ignored) by the scientists working on covid vaccines can be easily explained - the thought of hundreds of billions of pounds of sales revenue for a successful covid vaccine can make anyone a bit forgetful........
Apart from which its entirely possible that scientists told the politicians about the long term dangers from OAS and were told to ignore them. Politicians work on very short timescales, they were desperate for a vaccine that 'worked' in the here and now as the public were clamouring for a solution, what do they care if a decade or more hence people are dying as a result of that decision? Do you really think an elected politician is going to tell a public crying out for a vaccine 'Well we've got one that works, sort of, and will protect you now for a while, but because its dangerous for society in the long term we aren't going to give it to you'? They'd get lynched.