Got my first Pfizer fix yesterday, so far just feeling a bit under the weather, little arm pain...but no extra limb growing and it doesn't feel like I have a tracking chip in my organism (afaik).
What surprised me is there was absolutely no waiting in queue at the vaccine 'bar' (the joint really looked like a pub) and the atmosphere was really relaxed.
Campaign really had a slow start in my country, but it seems like now all the technical and logistics issues are fixed.
It'll probably solve the ICU clutter and casualties rate, though it's a bit late for that from the people's perspective, from a real-time perspective I guess we should be grateful science-tech today is mighty enough to provide countermesures in such insanely short time (and welp, even if there's no solid proof that it's also probable that a science-tech screw-up released the virus...)
Now will it defeat the virus within a year or two ? I'm among those who doubt so.
Because there's still quite the significant % of the population who still refuse to respect the most elementary anti-virus hygiene (no-mask-distance-handswash) and refusing to get a vaccine, not even the incredibly low-risk mRNA recipe.
And the little fucker keeps mutating as expected, it's with us for a long time.
I also doubt it'll fix the worldwide social and economics re-shuffle, a new list of 'winners and losers'' countries different from the pre-pandemic one seems to emerge little by little.
Some countries like mine claim thing's well be back to normal after the pandemic, there'll be a rebound in growth and the display of optimism is a bit unsettling, smelling fishy.
IMO the real trend is that the Covid crisis only accelerated the already well-engaged growth of inequalities eco/soc gap.
Maybe the difference it made is that it confirmed which of the 1st world countries were going to more or less make it through the hardest times and preserve their lifestyle untouched...
...and which are clearly going down in ranks and their people's standards of living are going down period.
