Why I Will Not Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
Why am I COVID-19 vaccine resistant? I believe the current versions of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are poor, and it was always inevitable that they would become poor because of slow global vaccination rates and a use of a single, highly mutable gene, S, which makes escape easier. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta Further, they will probably only get worse given the rate of evolution in SARS-CoV-2 today. That rate is likely to only accelerate unless we get R below 1 for all strains, which is nearly impossible if we're starting from R0's around 8 . There looms the spectre of antibody-dependent enhancement(ADE), which is a property of other betacoronaviruses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943455/ I think other vaccines hold better promise and will not need to be administered nearly as frequently because they target other parts of the immune system or virus, and their safety profi...