Hopes that the new Novavax vaccine could change the minds of a significant number of vaccine resisters have been disappointed.

Of course, those who have so far vehemently opposed such a vaccination against Corona are concerned with the principle and not with the vaccine.

You don't want to be vaccinated and you find your bad reasons for it.

You can watch it on the digital channels, the process takes place quickly - like in a successful pandemic: It always only takes a few hours until a corresponding active substance is sufficiently denigrated in the relevant channels on the Internet for new "arguments" to be made for it again find that it would be better not to continue with vaccinations.

In order to prevent further justification for the supposed sense of mass refusal to vaccinate: Of course, measured in relation to the total population, there is a very manageable number of cases in which vaccination is not indicated for medical reasons.

But that will not apply to the broad masses of opponents of vaccination.

So two options remain.

On the one hand, the variant of the permanent optimists.

Because of course Novavax still has the potential to reach the people who have rejected previous vaccines.

Maybe they just need to be (even) better informed.

It's not the vaccine or the vaccination campaign

The other variant can either be attributed to realists or pessimists: Even a new vaccine with a different mode of action than the previous preparations will not help.

And those who have so far decided against vaccination continue to rely on the fact that the vaccination rate in the general population (by the people they think are stupid) will ensure that they themselves can stay on course.

Now this deeply selfish view does not change the fact that vaccination is the only sure way out of the pandemic.

And that, given the latest global political developments, it would be important for even more reasons to finally put this pandemic behind us.

If you want it a few sizes smaller: A vaccination is still the best protection against a severe course of the disease, even if it is not a guarantee against it.

Rationally thinking people should be convinced by looking at the probabilities, but with Novavax and its failure it is clear: It's not the vaccine and it's not the fault of the most recent vaccination advertising campaign, which again devoured 38 million euros and is no longer of any use.

If you want to see a higher vaccination rate now,

must decide to vaccinate - or we will all live with the consequences of their absence.

Some want it that way, some don't.

The latter are in the vast majority.