compaqdeskpro t1_j2rau3j wrote
"Helped to limit"? I'm extremely impressed. My whole life everyone told me its impossible to make a cold vaccine because of how much it mutates. Flu vaccines work but not 100%, as there are several strains you could have, so only the elderly were compelled. Covid was a flu that mutated more than usual, possibly because it was bioengineered, so common sense would tell you the vaccines don't work very well. The media even had to admit that previous vaccines don't work on the newest mutation. That common sense still seems to hold up, and the hysteria fell flat on its face.
DuckQueue t1_j2s4rpe wrote
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Colds and flu have been around infecting humans for centuries or more, which means there is a huge amount of genetic variation to start with. That makes it a lot harder to create a vaccine which is highly effective against all their already-existing variations, which makes it easier for a variant to arise which escapes immune protection.
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COVID isn't an influenzavirus at all. FFS, influenza is a segmented negative-sense RNA virus while coronavirus is a positive-sense, non-segmented RNA virus.
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Not all viruses are equivalent in terms of genetic diversity and mutation rates.
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COVID wasn't bioengineered
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The original COVID vaccines are less effective against the newest strains, not ineffective.
Basically, almost everything you said was completely wrong.
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