How much time must pass without long term effects materializing before unvaccinated people admit that the vaccinated had a point?
Rhetorical question, but:
Given what we know about long term effects of vaccination, about 3-4 months without "long term effects".
Needless to say, this mark has been passed more than once - in trials in 2020, and then again in mass vaccination programs in 2021.
If.
I mean, yes? It all depends on how plausible the original proposition is. So the proposition under test here is "are COVID vaccines preferable to COVID"? The data from the real world is here and it's not even close.
I am not going to say that's impossible.
I am going to suggest that there would be Nobel prize in medicine waiting for the people who can explain the novel mechanism for _how_ those supposed much delayed side effects are possible.
Vaccine side effects occur shortly afterwards (1). They do not surface a year later - and it would have to be a year later, not 6 months, given when mass vaccination programs started & what we haven't seen happen in the real world. And vaccine side effect also do not surface 6 months later, FWIW.
Why do you feel invested in fantasising about "vindication, propaganda, cover-up". Is this heathy? You're nearly there with "could not ever afford to admit being wrong"
1) "In virtually all cases, vaccine side effects are seen within the first two months after rollout."
https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...
After spending this much political capital, no one could ever afford to admit that the unvaccinated, especially those who already had COVID, had a point. So would there just be a huge cover-up, or would They (with a capital T) push propaganda that says "The science has changed, but the people who didn't follow the previous science were lucky and unpatriotic!"?