Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccines over time
It&#x27;s almost like the existence of vaccines places evolutionary pressure on a mutating virus.<p>This whole pandemic has highlighted something that I really prefer not to think about, which is just how irrational, selfish, incapable of assessing risk and prone to confirmation bias too many people are.<p>The vaccine isn&#x27;t 100% effective in stopping transmission? Or stopping you catching the disease? Or dying? Each of these becomes some pseudo-gotcha moment that leads some down an invermectin-taking path with Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan as the pied piper.<p>It&#x27;s basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an injury from a seat belt so they&#x27;re net harmful.<p>What many non-Americans may not understand is that there are a nontrivial number of Americans who still doggedly and genuinely believe that about seat belts to this day and view laws requiring their use as impinging on their ffeedom.<p>And we want people to make sacrifices for climate change? Yeah, never gonna happen.