But what about the increasingly-likely scenario in which variants that can resist the vaccines spread so quickly and crowd out older versions, we’re permanently playing catch-up, and the pandemic just becomes the new normal, and having a vaccination just doesn’t make a ton of difference, both individually, and en masse?
Call me glass half empty on COVID. We’re not even going to hit herd immunity for the original version, at the rate we’re at — and I don’t actually care what a chart in The Times shows. If only 175 million Americans are willing to even be vaccinated, there’s a hard limit, no matter the supply.
