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DuckQueue t1_j2s4rpe wrote

Reply to comment by compaqdeskpro in COVID-19 vaccines, prior infection reduce transmission of Omicron: Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to researchers that examined transmission between people living in the same prison cell. by lolfuys

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Not all viruses are equivalent in terms of genetic diversity and mutation rates.

  4. COVID wasn't bioengineered

  5. 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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