Yet, the "Intelligencia" are still dismissing the facts, while hiding behind their qualifications and personal opinions.

He's a salesman for Asto Zenica, from the look of it.

Here is such an example, from a Spanish newspaper (in English):

https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-05-23/we-should-forget-about-herd-immunity-its-the-wrong-concept-because-of-the-variants.html

‘We should forget about herd immunity. It’s the wrong concept, because of the variants’

Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and the man who led the clinical trials for the AstraZeneca vaccine, believes that new strains of the coronavirus will find ways of transmitting and causing mild infections

so the variants will only cause "mild infections" (did he let the truth out?)