I don't know how true the 'doesn't work on variants' claim is, based on the studies so far the vaccines still have a pretty good immunity against the variant strains. Notably however, to get post-COVID immunity you have to first get and survive COVID, which carries both the risk of death but also long-term health effects far outstripping the risks of the vaccine.
And of course, the vaccines also reduce both the severity and the mortality of breakthrough cases. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2786039
Advocating for post-COVID immunity in lieu of a vaccine is a sideways way of saying "you need to get the disease to avoid the disease."
if you are inferring I am suggesting people have a Covid party to get sick, you are incorrect. That’s not what I said at all. Nor do I suggest it.
What I said is there is a dearth of nuanced reporting - just one big hammer of a story - Vax vax vax forever.
when you have a kid who is 15, has already had Covid (6 weeks ago) and the scientific community acts as though that sickness imparted zero benefit…we have a problem. it makes it very difficult to make a decision as a parent when the answer is always one thing with no opportunity to interrogate what is best.
In the lancet articles there are suggestions that someone post Covid should perhaps get only a single shot, since the sickness itself in effect was at least a first shot. There are also other studies that show a longer period between shots provides a more durable effect - especially for kids to help prevent the heart issues that arise after the 2nd shot.
You shouldn’t be hearing about these things on Rokslide. They are in well-respected medical journals. It’s just that politics is driving (and ruining) everything so they don’t make it to the evening news.