The original plan was to have the vaccine for the Omicron variant ready in March. That would have been a great move by the pharmaceutical corporations, because nature would have worked in their favour. With few people catching viruses during summer, they could have taken credit for the improvements. However, their hundred day plan was too tight, even by warp speed standards. The rollout is going to happen in September rather than March.
This is far from ideal for the snake oil sales team. Not only is Omicron last season's variant, fall and winter is flu season. The vaccine rollout is going to coincide with an uptick in cases as well as the emergence of some new variant. Only the most fearful will fail to notice the uselessness of the vaccine.
Another problem is the rollout's implications when it comes to vaccine status. Only those vaccinated with the Omicron version will be considered fully vaccinated. Everybody else are back to square one. They are no more vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
With less than half of everybody vaccinated, it becomes impossible to reintroduce the sort of draconian measures that we've been seeing. With only the most fearful up to date with their vaccine status, there can be no discrimination based on vaccine status, and a major selling point for the vaccine disappears. The ploy to keep us perpetually boosted is whimpering into nothing, precisely as predicted a year ago.
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