The Future of Vaccines

[Anon212]

Vaccines are perhaps the greatest scientific invention of all time. If it wasn't for them a significant portion of the global population would not be here right now. I simply do not entertain the anti-vax rhetoric but I appreciate that we have run into issues for example with the swine flu vaccine which did cause many issues. The Covid-19 vaccines look great and it seems we have found our way out of this pandemic. I am only an undergraduate physiology student so my knowledge on these topics is still low. I have been following Leo for a while and especially the recent videos on Science really popped my head open. I was speaking recently with an immunologist friend of mine who works on vaccine adjuvants and though I appreciate his intelligence and work I was heavily concerned at the end of our conversation. It seems as though him and not just him (the scientific establishment) see vaccines as some holy grail which they are in a sense - but also it's worrying how they intend on using them in the future. To me it is frightening to think that parents would not vaccinate their children against the likes of polio but the cocktails they are brewing for the future are something else. I mean it seems as though they are trying to make us live forever. It s getting ridiculous the number of vaccines being administered to children and I think in the future it will be a lot more. It seems as though they are trying to vaccinate against pretty much everything. God knows, they may use giant syringes in the future to make sure they can get 150-200 vaccines all thrown together into one cocktail into the kids. Now of course, a reminder - please do get vaccinated. My brother and father are essential workers and both have been vaccinated with the new vaccine and they are both doing just fine. But I worry about the future. Where this is headed. The extraordinary dependence on such immune stimulants. I was also speaking to someone who worked on the HPV vaccine. He didn't really seem to have an opinion and was just kind of going with the flow. What do you guys think? Could this become a classical example of "too much of a good thing is bad". I think so. I am starting to appreciate modes of treatment beyond the scientific paradigm however I don't really mention them around my colleagues for fear of being ridiculed. I am not anti-vax but I do believe we need to be wary of how we use this technology - just like any other technology. I mean Musk has been warning us about AI for a while now