It suffices to acknowledge that the ongoing convergent evolution of new variants is driven by natural selection pressure to conclude that mass vaccination campaigns conducted in the heat of a pandemic are now promoting expansion of immune escape variants that vaccines will eventually no longer be capable of protecting against. [from above link]
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I hope this isn’t true.
It validates the OP premise that vaccines may be increasing the frequency of variants but I don’t like the second part. I’d just as soon be wrong all the way around.
THese so called vaccines are extremely narrowly focused on one small part of the spike protein... at Bret and Heather point out we are at great risk of the bug getting completely around the vaccines. I have decided that in all likelihood that this is only a matter of time. That the Pfizer substance does so poorly with the so-called Delta variant is evidence that I am correct.
I too hope that I am wrong...I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the gain of function work on bat viruses that the science community and governments got behind has in the space of only a few years of operation has become a calamity.

