Re: idiots walk among us

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 19:39:44 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:

>
Also, I'm told that the virus mutates so much, it's a matter of luck
whether that year's vaccine will work on that year's virus.

>
This is the problem with RNA viruses... the mechanism for them to take over
a cell isn't very good and is prone to major transcription errors.  So
the virus doesn't propagate cleanly and you get all of these variants with
different antigens.  But they are often similar enough that the vaccine
is sometimes helpful even when it isn't spot on.

That's always the excuse when the flu vaccine is an abject failure.

But if /you/ had paid for 50,000,000,000 doses, wouldn't you be trying
to sell them even if you knew they didn't do much?

I'm not anti-vax at all, but I live in an area where herd immunity is
quite high and prefer to coast along. I did get three jabs for the
pandemic, however.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"