Kamikuza said..FormulaNova said..
What do you mean by the vacccines are forcing the virus to mutate?
Evolution. If potential hosts are harder to infect because they have greater immunity for whatever reason, then the more infectious and contagious strains become more common in a population.
Thankfully there's only a certain amount of mutation a virus can handle until it does itself out of a job.
A virus is not conscious. Neither is evolution. Things don't "evolve to survive", they just die out if they can't survive the new environment.
...which is what you said, kinda sorta, but the whole conversation makes it sound conscious.
Just to be clear
the vaccine is not forcing the virus to evolve. If your body rejects the virus, kills it, it ain't going to be mutating in your body.
But the vaccine allows you to survive the virus, so it can mutate in you!
Your body kills the virus, as much as it can, which means ...there is less of it, if any, to mutate.
That is:
a vaccinated person has less of the virus to mutate in them than a non-vaccinated person.
So yes, the virus can mutate inside a vaccinated person, but it is
less likely to. And this is all about percentages; nothing is 100% (except death).
But I did my own research and I found that mutated viruses have to be stronger to survive in a vaccinated person.
Mutations occur randomly. If/when a mutation occurs in a vaccinated person it is less likely to survive than if it occurred in a non-vaccinated person. Because a vaccinated person has anti-bodies (many) that will go further toward killing it than a non-vaccinated person has (none).
Saying that vaccinated people somehow help the virus get stronger, by attacking it, is akin to saying "We shouldn't have fought the Japanese because they just learned our tactics and became stronger. We should have let them win and then they would have just ...died out naturally.. i dunno, really."