@direstdiarist@afneil Yes, a variant of the same single virus. Which is why the effectiveness of vaccines changed over different variants.
Whereas a common cold is many completely different viruses altogether, a vaccine against one type of rhinovirus would have no effect on a different rhinovirus cold
@direstdiarist@afneil Remarkable how people are so confident yet so fucking stupid - the common cold is made up of hundreds of different viruses. Unless you want a vaccine for every single one it's simply impractical. Covid is a single virus.
@Cheesecake848@krassenstein@elonmusk If immigrants coming in such an issue he cares about, why did trump get the republicans to shoot down the border bill so he could run on it in the election?
@TexasLindsay_@piersmorgan It didn't get pulled amid safety concerns, it got pulled because there are now better alternatives, at least read the fucking article properly
@KP24@DjokerNole This is not what the article says AT ALL. If you actually read the article beyond the headline, it's being removed from circulation because better vaccines are now more widely available, nothing to do with side effects. It's fucking insane how much this is being propagandised
@ater477@freshnot3s You have to be 12 or younger - there is no possible way any rational human being could watch us finally be a respected European team competing on all fronts after years of mediocrity and embarrassment and think 'arteta out'. Finally a good side and people want to start over, wild