Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
The data are not wrong, or manipulated purposefully, to complicate and confound medical decisions in how to manage the pandemic and the continued presence of new strains of the virus. It is early yet in seeing how long-lived such alterations become; that is a variable here that will determine to what extent there will be long-term consequences that are meaningful as a downside of vaccination programs that have been carried out. Many things that are theoretical do not play out in producing a practical change of sufficient magnitude to represent a problem or a true liability. Certainly, any adverse change in direction, in regulation of the workings of the body, creates a point of potential vulnerability and, under the right conditions, might represent a potential tipping point, the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak, but most of the time might be something measurable but not of any true consequences that matter.
As you have discussed with us recently, the original strain of the Covid-19 virus was sufficiently lethal to warrant taking a risk of this kind to produce something that, while not perfect, resulted in a meaningful level of protection from serious illness and death that was sorely needed, as without divine intervention the death toll would have been much, much greater, and that is not appreciated by the medical community or the public but simply the facts of the matter. This was the quickest route to getting a usable vaccine program that was effective enough to help on a large scale and, as such, it has served its purpose admirably despite many individual instances of side effects and complications, most of which are not lethal even if serious and troubling. There are many situations where trade-offs are made with medical care when lives are at risk and even quite unpleasant side effects are of a lesser concern.
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