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> The mandates early on were to curb the hospitalizations / deaths that was occurring.

The first vaccine was very efficient against infection by the original variants. So it was not useful only for people with co-morbidities. Then we got Omicron and a loss of efficacy against infection (but still useful to reduce severeness).

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My issue is that it was already known that you can't vaccinate against a corona virus. Why we were convinced this time would be different was insane to me. They used to call them "mutations". But they came up with a new word "variants". Plus there were past attempts to come up with vaccines for SARS and MERS which all failed. This was no different. I wished they had leveled with everyone about this rather than scare the shit out of people.

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