But then governments and businesses started to mandate the vaccines, even though they had no clear vision of the future, while there already were signs of lowered efficacy and side effects. It's all cool as long as it is voluntary with a focus on risk/benefit ratios, but as of now, people are demonizing others who want to wait for a clearer picture. Since all that new science regarding efficacy, side effects and natural immunization is bubbling up now, I am sure that anyone who tried to force the vaccine on others will be deemed pretty reckless soon.
Who would support Rwanda-style forced vaccinations for example?
https://www.dw.com/en/rwanda-forcibly-vaccinating-people-aga...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
Exposed, not infected, though even if they did say infected, a 10 year timespan is better than a 2 year timespan.
As far as the evolving science on what has to happen, well, it’s a rapidly changing situation. If someone had said at the start of the vaccine schedule, “hey, there’s going to be an incredibly infectious strain in late 2021 that will render vaccines much less effective”, maybe they would have mandated three shots up front. But they didn’t know that, and so when the first round of vaccine trial results came back with a 90%+ efficacy rates, I remember there were people arguing that those numbers were TOO effective, and we should reduce the volume of the second dose or remove it entirely in order to vaccinate more people. Good thing we didn’t do that.
As far as the whatabouts - great, yes, therapeutics are great. More therapeutics. But focusing on omicron’s reduced level of severe cases misses the point of vaccination, which is that we don’t only vaccinate for ourselves, we do it to try to reduce spread in the community. We vaccinate to try to make it less likely that new variants that are better at escaping immune response arise. Maybe if everyone had embraced vaccination we wouldn’t be close to 2k dead/day.