The race to reach herd immunity has always had a grander goal than simply preventing deaths caused by the coronavirus in its current form. The experience in India shows that this virus can mutate, and our vaccines might not be able to keep up. Evidently, these new mutations can seriously sicken young people much more than the original novel coronavirus.
India’s present is not necessarily our future. Whereas we spend one-fifth of our GDP on healthcare, India spends just 1.28%. India is the No. 19 densest nation on the planet, whereas we rank No. 145, wedged between the Danish Faroe Islands and Kyrgyzstan. Furthermore, just 2% of India’s vast population is fully vaccinated, as opposed to 30% of ours.
But the situation in India has reached precisely the depletion of hospital capacity and medical resources that our initial efforts to “flatten the curve” were designed to avoid. If India’s “double mutant” strain is responsible for 65% of its COVID-19 patients being below the age of 45, including seriously ill children, then it’s fully possible that any future COVID-19 mutations stateside will not spare young people the way they have to date.
Luckily, we have a tool to prevent such an apocalypse and end this pandemic once and for all. Young people may not suffer any serious consequences from our current form of the coronavirus, but the vaccine is much safer than the virus. Even if your odds of dying from the coronavirus are slim to none, you run the chance of two weeks of serious illness and long-term side effects if you don’t get vaccinated. By contrast, the vaccine may give you a day of flu-like symptoms or none at all.
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s best attempts to convince the world that the novel coronavirus emerged naturally, the fact that it emerged in the city with China’s only BSL-4 laboratory seems like no coincidence. Note that our State Department had previously warned the facility was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses, including one with 96% genetic similarity to SARS-Cov-2. And that SARS-Cov-2 has mutated so quickly into even more contagious and fatal variants would give further circumstantial evidence to the claim that this virus was specifically engineered for a gain-of-function experiment.
In other words, if this virus is designed to mutate in order to maximize its danger, then herd immunity becomes all the more imperative.
Even if you don’t care about the risk of infecting the populations currently most vulnerable to our COVID-19 variants, your refusal to get the vaccine could result in a mutation that could kill you and your children. And if that’s not enough to convince you, we’ve seen how tyrannical the government became in response to a virus that couldn’t kill you. Just imagine how much worse the overreach will be if a mutation proves impervious to our existing vaccines and more dangerous to young people.
So own the libs — get the vaccine. Otherwise, we could well end up with years of additional lockdowns or even become the next India.
