I feel the same way with masks. If you didn't do enough research, you could easily believe that anything with an N95 certification would be ideal for protective purposes, but plenty of N95 masks have valves which makes them useless for preventing infected individuals from infecting others. There are also cloth masks, gators, and so on. But to many people they all fall under the umbrella of the unspecific term "wearing a mask", and unless you explicitly look up the medical consensus, many sources of information are unlikely to also state "but not those masks."
It will keep evolving as the situation evolves.
I think, the danger lies in the fact that everything said by scientists on the media is oversimplification and technically wrong as a result of the simplification attempt. This can erode credibility significantly.
Kurzgesagt made a good explainer video on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0
I never get this antivaxxer argument for ”naturalism”.
So the guy somehow got bitter with the people involved and turned it into media battle. He tries to portray himself as an insider who is not afraid or has higher morals to tell the truth about mRNA.
He says stuff like “This research shows that virus spike proteins damage the heart, the vaccine produces spike proteins therefore vaccines are dangerous”.
Doesn’t have any actual research on his claims, he simply invents things from thin air and says them from the position of inventor of the mRNA.
Very popular guy in the antivaxx community.
For me, i'm young and healthy, im not at risk. Thats been demonstrated clearly now. For me, the risk of unknown long-term side effects related to the mRNA vaccine far outweigh my risk to covid. Also i just don't trust the profit incentives of modern big-pharma and big-science.
Read https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Pharma-Democracy/dp...
Also, just as a good mechanic doesn’t necessarily make a good racer, knowing how to produce mRNA doesn’t mean that you know what it does and doesn’t do to humans. That’s completely different field.
The guy is a complete schmuck, if he had something he would have been working on it and publishing the results instead of using his CV to preach BS in the media.
I don't see how the booster is guaranteed to be the final answer as the virus keeps mutating and spreading among the very large unvaccinated population.
I personally think that it will become endemic, thanks to the vaccine we would have enough immunity to keep us out of hospital and each time we get the virus it would act as a booster.
This thing is not going to end without something like world wide super strict lockdown(Wuhan style) or world wide vaccination(and probably some combinations as the vaccine itself reduces but doesn't completely stop the spread).