The major problem with un-vaccinated people is that given enough of them they provide a petri dish for the virus to spread. The more a virus spreads, the more it replicates, the more chance of mutation that defeats the vaccine, and we start from square one all over again. Even if a vaccine is not 100% effective it provides significant slow down of the process. So vaccination has a part to play in the individual to protect them, and in the herd to prevent rapid transmission and mutation. Or we could just do what nature does, wolves apparently are very good 'medication' for herd animals, they have been proven to reduce disease in wild deer and swine population as they kill off and eat any infected slow and struggling members of the herd before they infect the others, just a thought.
Maybe we should reintroduce large wolf packs into low vaccination areas, those that can run fast enough can reach safety, those that can't well, circle of life stuff.... It would make good television anyway, narrated by Attenborough.
And just to be clear, before vaccines pandemics/epidemics would run for years. The Spanish flu of 1918 ran for 3 years, eventually infecting 1/3rd of the world and killing 50 million and covid is about the same virulence with about 4 times the morbidity.
Last edited by 43Inches; 20th Sep 2021 at 06:13.