What’s Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy

I’d expect science distrust due to scientists and the media spouting these kinds of easily disproven blanket statements to be a major driver of vaccine hesitancy.

Keep in mind that covid-19 spreads through wildlife and vaccines do not grant a large amount of protection against spread (declining from about 80% to about 20% in about 6 months).

So to pin the blame squarely on unvaccinated people is unwarranted. The reality is that new variants can emerge anywhere and vaccination is not going to end the emergence of new variants.

Based off of what, the assumption that it arose in an unvaccinated person? The working theory I've seen is that it evolved all of its mutations within a single immunocompromised individual. This would clearly be possible, vaccinated or not. The lion's share of the mutations exist in the spike protein antigen. If the individual had been vaccinated, the greatest selective pressure on the virus would've been on that antigen, given that all but the attenuated virus vaccines produce an immune response to that single antigen.

I'm vaccinated, I think that the vaccines are effective at certain things within certain windows of time, but their epidemiological role being laid out as binary is highly overstated and oversimplified.