I skimmed through the middle article but fail to see that humanity had many choices. Either vaccinate and run the risk of mutations in the future or don't vaccinate and bear the death of a substantial portion of the population until either a sufficient number of people have gained natural immunity or have died. Big Pharma may have made a motza and will continue to do so but no government is going to tell their population "no vaccination for you" when technology proven to minimise the effects of a deadly virus to a dose of the sniffles exists.
The longer term questions around what will happen in the future are not easy to discern. Perhaps humanity will need to have continual boosters or perhaps the virus will mutate to a less deadly variant, or maybe a more deadly one which will require another vaccination development. The article does twist the discussion around the benefits that big pharma gets from the pandemic but I don't think there is a viable alternative to paying the piper.
The lessons from the 1918 flu are that humanity will eventually gain some form of immunity and perhaps we can achieve that in a few years time while reducing the death toll form gaining that immunity.
Many of the statements around governments (falsely) promising a state of zero covid with the aid of vaccination are correct and I am in the middle of a conservative relaxation of restrictions in Canberra that defies logic when the chance of catching covid is fairly small and the impact of doing so is a case of the sniffles, yet the health advice is that you must wear a mask outside. Thankfully that will change and people will rapidly fatigue of following the surgical levels of infection avoidance in most circumstances. At that time the impact and chance of infection on a vaccinated person should be the same as catching the flu was until a couple of years ago.
And if you are unvaxed then enjoy your experience in either dying or acquiring a natural level of immunity.
An interesting study for the future will be the immunity levels of children who will catch covid, have minimal sickness and yet still achieve immunity to some degree. A thesis to pursue in my dotage perhaps?
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