One of the most disturbing, cynical implications of all this is that it is those people who don't get vaccinated who will suffer the most from these superbugs whose development is fueled by ineffective vaccines.

In other words, if a vaccine is 50% effective, then of course the person who gets vaccinated will have less of a chance of severe illness than the person who isn't. But as the use of that vaccine increases the lethality of the virus, it is the unvaccinated who will suffer most as a result.

An analogy might be air conditioning and global warming. As the world heats up, some people will turn up their air conditioning, further heating up the world, and harming most those without air conditioning.

So, as you've point out already, this is a vicious cycle in which new, partially effective vaccines have to be continually produced to address new, increasingly lethal viruses, much like what has happened with antibiotics. And it is those people who are not on the vaccine bandwagon who will suffer the most. The media, of course, will blame their suffering on not being vaccinated without exploring what is driving the emergence of these viruses.