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Quote: DHM "Thankfully that's highly unlikely. The vaccines generate an immune response to the critical part of the virus used for cell invasion. It can only change so much before it becomes unable to invade the cell. In all probability mutations that completely avoid the vaccine induced immune response (if that's even possible) would not be able to replicate via cell invasion and immediately disappear.
We've made a lot of variants of the spike protein - around 45 so far - we can see how little there is left to potentially change. Mutations need to not effect the 3D structure of the protein to the point where it becomes unstable.

I agree with the rest of your post though. The death rate amongst young people is low but it's not zero. The difference between Covid and flu is that we have highly effective vaccines against covid, we don't currently against flu. In essence by not waiting until all over 18's are vaccinated (just a few short weeks) and allowing infections to spread rapidly, people will die who have no need to die.'"

Current research on the LAMBDA variant suggests that you are wrong . That variant is already in this country. Fortunately it seems to not be able to bypass Pfizer and Moderna vaccines But allowing pretty much unfettered holiday travel will certainly add to the scientific experiment currently ongoing.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 21259673v1

As for your comments about flu that is because there are hindered of mutations of flu which keep changing and you never know which one will be the winter “flu”. Current flu vaccines are based on providing a response to the 3 main circulating types of flu. Pretty much guess work. coronavirus is likely to develop in the same way . In 18 months we have had a dozen varieties of Covid, delta, South African, Indian, Lambda , Kent whatever you like to call them. In 10 years time we may have hundreds just like the flu with the country having to guess which updated vaccine to give in the winter along with the flu vaccine.

My big issue with the complete withdrawal of all management of Covid such as masks etc is that all experts agree we will have a massive flu season as people have lost natural immunity to various viruses ( hence the recent increase in children admitted to hospital with respiratory viruses). Maintaining some basic elements of virus protection such as masks in public places . Public transport etc would also have reduced the spread of flu this winter.

Being able to turn around and say we have 50,000 flu deaths but it is nothing to do with Covid spread and attempts to manage it will be nothing short of disingenuous.