People talking about how this type of vaccine has been worked on for several years are overlooking the fact that is actually been in development for at least 20 years, and the reason its never been used is because they haven't been able to get it to work successfully. Plus there have been a lot of concerns about additional effects of such a vaccine. Risking it through to production seems more politically expedient than wise to me.
I'm with those who just don't see numbers to justify the response we have made. For example, in 2017 the number of people in my state who died from respiratory illness was just over 1000. In 2020, they told us that there were no other respiratory illnesses, only Covid, and the number of Covid deaths didn't pass the "normal" number until the 3rd week of December. I fail to see that as a significant difference.
I realize that some on the front lines, particularly those who work in the ER, have a different perspective seeing the bulk of the sicker patients, but reports of being overwhelmed with Covid patients are far less convincing to me than actual numbers, and those numbers just don't add up. Not that it matters, but I am a physician, and was in the ER numerous times at the peak of Covid cases in our area (which made national news due to the spike in numbers), and to be honest neither the ER nor the visual ever seemed one bit busier than normal. Just my anecdotal observation.