Is a vacccine going to save us all?

What seems like a long time ago, we were all told that a vaccine against coronavirus was what would finally make the pandemic vanish but we would have to wait a year, maybe two or three years before the injections could begin. Now we're told that even if there is a successful vaccine, coronavirus is here to stay, like flu and colds. Not such a killer, but still around. And who knows perhaps another virus will emerge from somewhere and hit us all over again. It's hardly surprising that people have become somewhat disillusioned by the vaccine dream. There has been too much politics involved. First it was Russia claiming to have found the silver bullet but it was too early and no one believed Moscow. Why would you? Then Trump promised a vaccine by election day. Well you can't get much more political than that. Again, no one believes him. Now China claims to be heading the race and should have a real vaccine before anyone else and will be ready to sell it to every country on the globe. Well of course they will but who wants it? Yet another Made in China product! No one has a clue who is telling the truth and because of that the queues to get the first jabs will probably be quite short. The people I admire most are the volunteers who have said they are prepared to be given the vaccine and then be dosed with the virus to see if it works. That's amazing. Thank you. But I still worry about whether the vaccine, be it Oxford, American, Russian or Chinese, is going to save the planet. Obviously I hope it does, especially now that we are entering the second wave of the virus and the gloomy statistics are returning to ruin our daily lives.