We must never ever use a non-sterilizing vaccine that does not stop transmission, during an ongoing pandemic, when there is immense infectious pressure intersecting with sub-optimal immune pressure
The point I am making as well as very special experts is that we must never ever use this type of sub-optimal vaccine (leaky imperfect vaccines that do not stop transmission or infection) that does not induce sterilizing immunity (neutralizing antibodies) and which cannot prevent infection, within the middle of an epidemic or pandemic. If you do vaccinate the population (mass vaccination) ‘during’ the pandemic when virus is circulating all around (as it is now), you are confronted with a situation whereby there is massive infectious pressure from the circulating virus (as it is now), while there is massive immune pressure from the mounting antibodies (vaccinal antibodies) against the circulating virus, but pressure that is not enough to defeat the virus for this vaccine is sub-optimal and not sterilizing (we know this by what has happened now with immune escape). This sub-optimal immune pressure when confronted by the infectious pressure from the virus will result in the Darwinian ‘natural selection of the fittest’ variants, whereby the ‘fittest’ variants (the most infectious as the virus seeks only to use your cellular metabolic machinery to replicate itself and cause you to ‘spread’ it to other hosts) that can overcome the immune pressure will become in time, the dominant variant. We have gravely underestimated the evolutionary capacity of the virus to overcome the sub-optimal immune pressure posed by the vaccinal antibodies. This was a catastrophic mistake when the vaccines were rolled out and continues to be and can only result in variants that could be very infections and the pandemic will never end, and of grave concern is the potential to drive the selection of dangerous lethal variants (possible super variants). The pandemic as it is now, will NEVER end. We will forever need boosters for the vaccine has failed and the immunity wanes after 3 months. This is well known now. We are driving variants e.g. Omicron, and more to come, if we continue this way, and we are using a leaky imperfect vaccine that does not sterilize the virus. The fact is that the only way you end the (any) pandemic is to break the chain of transmission and you do this by reaching population level herd immunity. As it stands, you could never ever achieve this with these vaccines, 100%. No question. They do not stop transmission and who tells you they could, the CDC and NIH and whomever, are openly lying to you. This vaccine is a disaster and a failure and it will only get worse.