And it seems arguably reasonable to consider the ‘flu vaccine’ as ‘typical’ and that (those) seem to offer even less protection than these.
Which is why when someone wants to impress you with the historical track record of vaccines, the flu vaccine conspicuously remains out of the picture.
What do you mean by this exactly? That the “potential market” possibly includes everyone? That doesn’t seem to be that different than for other vaccinations
I guess maybe some other vaccines have a near-worldwide cover. Note that since world population and GDP has always been going up, every new global pandemic creates de facto an unprecedented huge potential market. Though not by much. So, I don’t know?
Ok, so at this point maybe we can agree that:
1/ The COVID vaccine is less efficacious than touted last year, when the population was convinced to wait and expect salvation from it.
But:
2/ Strangely, 1) does not seem to have led policy/opinion makers to shift their bets on other horses or mellow their speech. Actually, pro-vaccination speakers have greatly radicalized this year, now advocating more and more openly shaming and punishment of unvaccinated people.
That looks something like Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs if the cult was so powerful it could punish dissenders. And I’m honestly frightened by that.
2/ Strangely, 1) does not seem to have led policy/opinion makers to shift their bets on other horses or mellow their speech. Actually, pro-vaccination speakers have greatly radicalized this year, now advocating more and more openly shaming and punishment of unvaccinated people.
That looks something like Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs if the cult was so powerful it could punish dissenders. And I’m honestly frightened by that.
I agree that this is a Sad own-goal – politicizing the vaccination efforts – but that’s because I’m convinced that the vaccines are pretty effective.
But I don’t think it’s actually ‘strange’ that this happened; Sad, yes, but not strange (or thus unexpected).
Which is why when someone wants to impress you with the historical track record of vaccines, the flu vaccine conspicuously remains out of the picture.
I guess maybe some other vaccines have a near-worldwide cover. Note that since world population and GDP has always been going up, every new global pandemic creates de facto an unprecedented huge potential market. Though not by much. So, I don’t know?
Ok, so at this point maybe we can agree that:
1/ The COVID vaccine is less efficacious than touted last year, when the population was convinced to wait and expect salvation from it.
But:
2/ Strangely, 1) does not seem to have led policy/opinion makers to shift their bets on other horses or mellow their speech. Actually, pro-vaccination speakers have greatly radicalized this year, now advocating more and more openly shaming and punishment of unvaccinated people.
That looks something like Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs if the cult was so powerful it could punish dissenders. And I’m honestly frightened by that.
I agree that this is a Sad own-goal – politicizing the vaccination efforts – but that’s because I’m convinced that the vaccines are pretty effective.
But I don’t think it’s actually ‘strange’ that this happened; Sad, yes, but not strange (or thus unexpected).