> In any case ivermectin appears to be the new hydroxychloquine. A medicine that was randomly seized on as theoretically being effective against viruses and has failed in every properly conducted RCT.
Vaccines are part of the solution, but they are not a panacea.
Not everyone is willing to take them and there aren't enough of them to vaccinate the entire world.
If the disease is still raging in any part of the world, that will lead to variants which will eventually escape the vaccine, thus restarting the cycle again.
As far as I know it’s a subject of some debate whether full immune escape from the mRNA vaccines is probable even given new variants. The spike protein can only be reconfigured in so many ways, it’s not like the flu.
Only a small percent of the world is vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, thus it's not a global solution.
Some vaccines are already ineffective with the variants, e.g. Chile has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, but doesn't have the disease under control.
Agree.