The best and brightest minds on this planet developed vaccines that have done amazing work in protecting people from this virus.
We are trying to do better... in spite of people spreading garbage on the internet.
Yet those "'best and brightest minds" have missed some MAJOR things regarding the way our immune systems operate, that didn't allow them to understand that there was a reasonable chance that fully vaccinated folks could still maintain a significant viral load and even spread COVID to others, while even a peon on this board kept pointing it out. Even if they didn't have the prescience to make the key connections, you'd think that a properly conducted trial might have caught it. Was it confirmation bias, or some other reason that they missed these types of things after only giving extremely glowing, super hyped prognoses? Either way, it's just good science to err on the side of caution with something this news.
The salient point is one that I've been yammering about since the very beginning of this thing. Man is NOT perfect. Even the most capable experts typically need time to work the kinks out new technology like this and we should have
EXPECTED to have a few issues and unexpected issues to work through. They should have anticipated that they would have to tweak things a bit. Most importantly, you NEVER roll the dice like that with the majority of the entire world's population all at once. It's just not wise to put ALL of your eggs in one basket, and transport them at the same time. If something goes wrong, ALL is lost.
Furthermore, if a cheap, repurposed drug, or an old classical vaccine could have saved a lot more lives, then we definitely should have evaluated them and used them instead of forcing the use of a single solution, (
i.e.. the mRNA vaccines),
even though they may not have been our BEST option. There's NO excuse for the mistake that contributed to, or outright caused, this latest surge, nor is there an excuse for not having another vaccine option based on classical, tried and true vaccine technology. If I can anticipate that a large percentage of folks who never guinea-pig new drugs would have reservations about taking something so new, they certainly should have been able to anticipate it, right? We'd likely already be north of 80%, and maybe be 90+% vaccinated, but instead of trying to determine what was
BEST, they were hell-bent on finding ways to trick, peer-pressure, and otherwise manipulate everyone into taking the mRNA for other reasons. We definitely need to learn from our mistakes, and DO BETTER going forward.