Do you think each round of vaccination spawns a new Covid variant?

[Anonymous]

The Delta variant appeared after the first wave of vaccinations in the winter of 2020/2021.

Vaccinations surged in the spring and summer of 2021 (me and probably you if you got the shot), then the Omicron variant appeared in the fall and winter.

I got my booster at the end of last year (you may have too). Then, the current BA.4 and BA.5 variants emerged in the spring of this year.

Thoughts?

Yes, that makes sense.

No, it's coincidental. Variants have nothing to do with vaccines.

I don't know/see results.

[BeMuse]

All you really need to know is that people that die take the experimental vaccines. I never took the experimental vaccine , nor did I wear a mask or take a PCR test. I've never caught COVID, even when I was in a waiting room with a crowd of long covid/vaccine damaged people who seemed very virulent. Whatever they've got, is a result of the vaccine and their damaged immune system is unable to manage a normal response.

[HighValue]

Yep. And the only people I know IRL that have gotten very sick or died were vaccinated. None of the unvaccinated people I know died and only one got sick for a few days like the flu. Me and most of the unvaccinated people I know work in schools and were around hundreds of people in public the whole time since this all started, often not wearing a mask either and have been totally fine.

[Asker]

Well, I don't think your own experiences are very good. How many people do you personally know that have died from Covid?

[Astarlessnightsky]

Mutations happen all the time, and there is a new variant every other day (of all viruses).

Vaccines help the body prepare the immune system in advance, only connection between virus and vaccine is, you need a new vaccine when a new variant is so different, the vaccine trained immune system doesn't recognise the virus anymore.

[NamerOfStars]

It's a CORONAVIRUS. There were over twelve thousand identified variants before the "vaccines" were even *invented*.

[Asker]

Why have we only heard about a few, such as Delta, Omicron and BA.4?

[NamerOfStars]

Because there's no practical difference between most of them, because only a handful of strains are likely to become dominant, and because the media's trying to spin a very careful narrative around the whole crisis.

[RationalMale]

I think the vaccines are terrible quality. So many people I know have had multiple shots but still got dog sick from covid.

"but it would have been worse without the shots!" Umm would it have been? in the Diamond Princess COVID outbreak, something like 50%-60% of the positive cases were asymptomatic... and that was what, a year before any vaccine was made?

[Guy13]

I do not think about it as I have managed to navigate without getting a shot.

[joeldalton]

Yup. the vaccinated are getting the sickest, now. The downside of pushing a bitty, leaky vaccine is that it spurs the virus to mutate to damage/evade the immune systems of those with the vaccine.

[josephinelcajon]

A little but its a natural course just like the flu changes from year to year

[OddBeMe]

“After it therefore because of it”

First year philosophical fallacy. You should be embarassed.

[Asker]

True. Correlation isn't causation. But some things still have causes. I just asked a question. I don't think it's that irrational to believe that the virus changes in order to thwart the vaccine. Most things evolve in relation to its environment in order to survive.

[EnglishEuropean]

The virus is designed to mutate. It would still be doing that if no one was vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

It's all fake.

[icetome]

not real I do not trust the government

[Anonymous]

No, that's not how it works.