We already have effective vaccines. The virus is spread through close contact, contaminated clothing, sheets or surfaces, consumption of contaminated meat and sexual contact. It's not going to be like COVID.
Or, the challenge will be convincing anyone to take it now that distrust of vaccines is at an all time high, due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines; and admittedly the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disorders it causes. Combined with increased political polarization.
And, the misinformation surrounding the link to autism that turned out to be fabricated by a scientist who just wanted to be famous. Or, that time a company 'accidentally' sent the hpv vaccines to South America that included the highly undesirable side effect of sterilization that had already caused the vaccine to be banned from use state-side. Or, that time we weaponized the distribution of vaccines in Pakistan to find Bin Laden more quickly.
Note: I'm not a vaccine denier or avoider, but I think we need to be honest with ourselves with what the actual challenges are and why they exist.
> due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines
There was nothing "reckless" about the speed of the vaccine development. That's just a fear-based reactionary thing, with no basis in any sort of fact or objective measure.
> the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disorders it causes
Both of which are far lower risk than the risk of myocarditis or long-term immune system damage caused by Covid infection.
The anti-vaccine arguments are the same as when seatbelts and airbags were new, and there was a vocal cohort highlighting the injuries caused by seatbelts, ignoring the fact that the injuries would have been 10x without them.
If 10,000 unvaxxed people get Covid and 1,000 of them get heart damage from the disease or 10,000 people get vaccinated and 1 of them gets heart damage from the vaccine, it's still obviously better to have gotten the vaccine for the general population.
"During the 2022–2023 global outbreak of clade II, transmission between people was almost exclusively via sexual contact".
But saying you can't be sexually promiscuous is a quick way to be down d00ted here.
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71.8% effective which means you have a 29% chance of STILL catching it and it's only good for 2 years so those who got jabbed up during the last out break need to be re-upped.
Hate all you want down d00ters, the moral of the story is: don't have lots of anonymous gay sex partners. It's not homophobic to point out that fact that MSM groups have the highest rates of STDs. They have it for a reason.
