Yes, indeed!!.
But I'm not sure how this fact is relevant. No-one is saying that vaccines are the magic bullet for COVID. And no-one is saying that vaccination programs somehow circumvent findings that might happen "between 5 and 20 years from now"!!
Every possible strategy (including your "Learn-to-live-with-it" suggestion) will be subject to post implementation analysis and to hindsight critiques - ain't nothing in this fact that particularly advances your proposal (or that particularly disadvantages vaccination strategies)
As I have said in the past, it's absolute folly to hold-up a particular citizen freedom above all others; each individual citizen right must be considered in the context of ALL our rights - because they often conflict with one-another
Ain't nothing special about the liberties that are impacted for COVID restrictions - you are perfectly happy to give-up many of your individual rights to enjoy the benefits provided by the society in which you live. "Lock down" rules are no different:
- if you believe in the bone-fides of the government that your community elected, then you should have confidence in their decisions.
- If you do not believe in the bone-fides of the government which your community elected, then act in a way that changes that government (in the normal way of a peaceful democracy).
- If you want to completely change the government regime by other means - then incite a revolution (but be careful- you might just get what you want)
- If you can't accept the rules that are implemented in a community - then it's simply unreasonable to expect that there will be no consequences from your decision (there's a cost to be paid - ain't no free rides in the new normal COVID world!!)
Mixing COVID specific strategies with wider concerns about government motives is tricky and it confuses cause-and-effect. Both of these issues are sufficiently important to warrant their own SEPARATE considerations - of course!!
And in any event - this is a simple matter of Maslow hierarchy of needs. Ain't no point holding onto freedom of movement rights if the society in which those rights are practiced doesn't function correctly because COVID is rampant in the community!!
hmm....... I consider you to be an extremely resourceful man (and clearly an intelligent individual). I'm not sure that a duel of citations between us really advances either of our positions - but thank you for the link (I will refrain from posting a paper with a counter position)