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Sure, that is a potential limitation for the COVID vaccinate at this time, other vaccines have mostly been around long enough to feel good about this, it is worth noting that while what you are suggesting is a hypothetical risk their isn't a good explanation for how that would biologically happen however.
Sometimes we do miss on things where there is initially no good biological explanation but it is extremely rare.
I'm trying to not get deep into the weeds of defending the COVID response though because it's far from the matter at hand however.
This suffers from precisely the same issue as talking about e.g. refrigerants. There have been those that stood the test of time - that you can no longer purchase.
Or to put it another way: let's talk excipients.
"drop dead in 20 years" is a blatent example to illustrate the point.
I am far more concerned in practice about things like, oh...
"This causes you to express a particular IgG antibody. Oops, said antibody breaks oocytogenesis. Oops, now any of your subsequent female children have nonviable oocytes". As this is something that:
a) has massive longterm effects (infertility of female offspring).
b) is essentially completely invisible for ~15 years or so.
c) is nontrivial to figure out even down the line.
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