you know multiple variants can mutate in parallel right? its not just a linear chain of mutations it can be a huge tree of random stuff happening. theres no 100% certainty to saying "because it lacks the mutations it comes from rodents back in 2020"those two statements arent even logically conclusive with eachother, either you completely misunderstood their point or you are straw manning them.
in both scenarios you highlighted, the logical thing to do is to push vaccination because all the variants we have discovered so far haven't significantly altered the spike protein to the point where the vaccine is 0% effective.
more people vaccinated -> less chance of people spreading it -> less people have it -> less chance of mutations
i do not see how a cross-species infection would contradict that lol
The major issue most people have is the open secret that most nations, politicians and world leaders seem to believe they can either walk toward, or even actively enforce
the idea that they need to lockdown their nations, or areas they control until "The Pandemic is over".
These are multiple, very vague pieces of criteria.
By who's authority will the Pandemic be deemed over? Why would locking down be necessary or helpful? Do we have data that fully suggests this?
Does the data account for loss of life or loss of quality of life by other factors of the lockdown?
Next, what would end the Pandemic?
Many powerful individuals claimed the pandemic would be over when arbitrary vaccination percentages were reached. As those percentages approached those goals, suddenly data came out suggesting vaccines were temporary in their effectiveness. Then the percentage goals were either altered or ignored.
Prior to this, it was that the pandemic would be over when vaccinations were available. And prior to that it was a set date that had been pushed back several times depending on your local area. And way, way prior to that it was "15 days to slow the spread."
It's not out of reach to believe the next claim will be we need everybody vaccinated. And then after that we need every animal to be either vaccinated or for covid to be eradicated.
It really seems like they're dragging out each and every step as an excuse to keep restrictions in place. Whether they be the very minor Mask Mandates or flat out Lockdowns.
Everytime we reach a goal, the goals change.
Covid is not going away, nor will it be eradicated. And blaming the people who've had their trust fully shaken by people who've consistently moved goalposts on their promises of lock downs isn't helping us.
We all have the same goal right now, whether we realize it or not. And that is "Getting back to Normal."
But we have two camps of the solution today.
End the lock downs and eventually the covid situation just be like the flu situation. People will die from it, that's just how statistical probabilities work.
but overwhelmingly most will not.
Or keep this going until covid goes away, because it's the right way.
I understand why people think the latter is sensible. Because in that logical situation, no one dies from covid and everyone lives.
But that's a very narrow and uninformed view. Under that path, we hand the power of deciding "when covid is over" to the government.
And that would likely mean covid will either never be over, or the restrictions from covid will never be fully removed.
Consider a world where, despite the fact we "defeated" covid and ended the pandemic, we still would need to have vaccination passports,
masks, and other covid era restrictions.
That world is the one where we keep on playing ball with the people who put their goalposts on wheels.
Covid is dangerous, and everyone wants it to be over. But if we wait for the government to tell us it's over.
We won't ever go back to normal. This will end up being the new normal.