Are you going to take the vaccine?

[Patrick]

Then what about all the possible COVID mutations? Next year there may be 5 new strands of COVID requiring 10 shots. And then the year after that 1,000 new COVID strands requiring 2,000 shots. And so on.

The deal with mutations is just like with the flu. It's always different mutations each year. You can get a yearly vaccine for it as well, but it is not deadly enough for most people to care about the flu vaccine. Each year they select the most potent mutations to include in the flu shot.

It's worth nothing that mutations will happen with our without vaccination.

So Covid will not go away, but we are collectively developing a better innate protection against that class of virus. So my guess is it will become just like any other flu virus and the year's most potent mutations will be included in the regular yearly flu shot. Since our innate protection will have made this thing into a regular flu, it won't matter much if people get that vaccination or not in the future.