So, here's what I find pretty disheartening. Even if we theoretically got the US to 100% vaccination, including all children, how much would we be eventually screwed anyway since it seems that all the latest variants in the news are foreign in nature? Delta? ...India. Mu? ...Columbia. "Doomsday" variant? ...South Africa. Unlike things as visibly hardcore as ebola or smallpox, since this thing can get passed around pretty silently, so long as there's even ONE unvaccinated person somewhere on the planet harboring it, will it not always have a chance to proliferate?
Reminds me of that movie 28 Weeks Later. They thought they had the virus completely eliminated. They found ONE person who survived, who had some kind of natural immunity to it, she was in quarantine to be examined, her dumbass husband sneaks in, sneaks in a kiss, and boom. The zombie apocalypse kicks right back off.
I do get the point that at least with vaccination, you can minimize the impact the virus may have on you, but with each new variant proving more resilient against the vaccine, feels like we'll be playing whack-a-mole with future boosters. I have a bad feeling it's already looking like it's going to be like dealing with another type of coronavirus. The common cold.

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