(09-03-2021, 07:33 PM)jeffster Wrote: It is true that the measles and polio vaccines are more effective than the COVID vaccines.
It's worth pointing out that polio and measles never caused pandemics either (well, the cause of the Antonine Plague is disputed, it may have been measles but that was in 165-180 AD...we don't really know). SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 has been the 8th deadliest pandemic in all of recorded human history. The fact that we got out literally dozens of vaccines in <24 months and got billions of people to take them - whilst proving how effective they were before any long term studies have been conducted - is an incredible feat of science.
To complain that "they aren't good enough" is either naïve or ignorant. They are the best thing we could have ever hoped for given our situation. They are keeping 90 to 99% of vaccinated people out of hospital, regardless of what vaccine it is. That's an amazing scientific accomplishment. This will be something they point back to in history for the next few centuries.