The one thing the anti-vaxxers can't seem to comprehend is that the
SARS-CoV-2 was a totally unexpected, and unplanned for, eventuality
that struck the planet like no virus since the H1N1 influenza A virus
of 100 years ago.
Medical researchers, virologists, epidemiologists and governments
were forced to respond as quickly as was practicable in order to
develop effective vaccines—but without the luxury of time, and only
limited foreknowledge.
As a result of the necessary haste in assessing the properties, virulence
and transmissibility and transmission of the new virus, it was inevitable
that occasionally erroneous assumptions would be made. However, the
highly qualified medical professionals who made those assumptions in
the early days were commenting to the best of their abilities at the time,
and within the bounds of their expectations as their research developed
more comprehensively.
For the current crop of anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, and conspiracy
theorists to now, in hindsight, throw those incorrect assumptions back
into the faces of those researchers is unfair, petty and unjustified. And
to make the claim that they were deliberately lying is disgraceful, and
shows just how low these moronic naysayers will go.
At any rate, the data proves the claims of the anti-vaxxers to be wrong,
and potentially deadly.
In Victoria, for example, unvaccinated people accounted for 40% of all COVID
deaths in the three months to 21 October 2022 —despite representing only
2.3% of the state’s adult population.