WoooHooo. Thanks for the great comment. This may surprise you, but I'm going to respectfully disagree with some of your conclusions.
going over material over the years about the different things that were hyped as solved by vaccines and it sounds good that they were “cured” by them but it’s unfortunately not accurate. Polio, which I know you are passionate about was more the result of spraying toxic pesticides
Ohhhhh boy. Another of my passions, toxic pesticides. I grew up on a farm, farmed myself for a time, and worked in the Ag chemical industry. I have literally bathed in DDT, 24 D, 245 T, Roundup and a great many others. It's a wonder I'm alive and relatively healthy. I was/am also a 'downwinder' from the radiation releases from Hanford. I've got a hell of a lot of friends and family that have been affected, many of whom quit bitching when they died. You will get no argument from me about pesticides. None.
Polio reduction was coincidental with the start of the pesticide use. I think the first nationwide (US) polio vax campaign was in 1956 or '57. I remember taking my Salk vaccine on 3 consecutive Sundays before church. I think I was a 1st grader. There simply were no pesticides in use before WWII. A ton of that research was done by the military. Not for humanitarian reasons.
This vaccine used RNA (not DNA) to shortcut the time it took to develop the vax, and I understand THAT hesitancy. It's a controversial step certainly. I didn't schedule my first shot until there were 60 million completed doses in the US, and I did the math for myself, not relying on somebody telling me what the numbers meant.
How did I know what to do? I have done extensive research (for a book that will remain forever unwritten) in the math of epidemics. Particularly in the vectors of transmission. This particular virus is particularly virilent and extremely transmissible, a horrible combination. Compared to the previous SARS viruses it is extreme.
I understand your 5-10 year concerns, I really do. Without treatment 600,000,000 people would have died of it's effects world wide within 5 years. If there were a conspiracy to reduce population why not just let it go? Don't produce a vaccine, and let it run it's course.
Thank you for the articulate and well written reply. We should do this again sometime :)