>We'd have naturally evolved the ability to train our immune systems against specific things it hasn't seen before?
See my response to another comment. We must have dealt with countless species and strains of coronaviruses already. So, our genes have a lot of training they need. Even if we haven't trained for this particular strain or species, we will most likely fare better than the solution that has never been tried ever.
What if the children of those vaccinated turn out to be much weaker against other common antigens start dropping dead? It will set humanity back by a lot.
>since people don't already have immunity, so your "millions of years" thing is completely off base.
We do. Most people are completely unaffeted by the virus. It's a relatively small percentage that has severe problems. To endanger EVERYONE because a small percentage is affected is downright retarded. Having said that, I'm not at all against trying different things out. The best way to roll it out would be to do it over a VERY LONG PERIOD, spanning generations. And most importantly, keeping significant number of people completely unvaccinated. This has not been a problem until now because big enough population chose to be unvaccinated. However, the scale of current problem might mean that this could change... which is terrifying.
See my response to another comment. We must have dealt with countless species and strains of coronaviruses already. So, our genes have a lot of training they need. Even if we haven't trained for this particular strain or species, we will most likely fare better than the solution that has never been tried ever.
What if the children of those vaccinated turn out to be much weaker against other common antigens start dropping dead? It will set humanity back by a lot.
These are not exaggerated hypotheticals. These are VERY REAL possibilities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233000/
>since people don't already have immunity, so your "millions of years" thing is completely off base.
We do. Most people are completely unaffeted by the virus. It's a relatively small percentage that has severe problems. To endanger EVERYONE because a small percentage is affected is downright retarded. Having said that, I'm not at all against trying different things out. The best way to roll it out would be to do it over a VERY LONG PERIOD, spanning generations. And most importantly, keeping significant number of people completely unvaccinated. This has not been a problem until now because big enough population chose to be unvaccinated. However, the scale of current problem might mean that this could change... which is terrifying.