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No thanks, the pre alpha test can do other people. On top of it you still have to wear the mask it doesn't stop you spreading the virus. It just reduces the sev
by _up 6y ago
No thanks, the pre alpha test can do other people. On top of it you still have to wear the mask it doesn't stop you spreading the virus. It just reduces the severity for the people vaccinated.
- silicon2401 6y agoI second this sentiment. I'd wager a few bucks that all the people pressuring others to hurry and get the vaccine will conveniently be in no rush to follow up and check whether the vaccine had any health consequences or offer to help.
- strictnein 6y agoI'd take it today with zero qualms. Don't worry though, what is likely the "average" HN reader (30, male), is pretty much last on the list, so by the time we get it there will be tens or hundreds of millions of people who have received all of the various types of vaccines.
- spuz 6y agoWhat? Why? You are say "those who want others to become healthy won't want to ensure they stay healthy". That sounds illogical.
- _up 6y agoHave you never heard about the word "Virtue Signaling"?
- omg_ponies 6y agoThat's not their job. Government departments with Public Health functions do that (e.g. https://vaers.hhs.gov/ https://vaers.hhs.gov/)
- burnthrow 6y ago> On top of it you still have to wear the mask This is the most nonsensical part to me. If the vaccine does what they say it does (reduce severe cases) then the justification for mask wearing and social distancing is gone.
- standardUser 6y agoAs more people become vaccinated the transmission rate will drop rapidly and people will stop complying with masks and distancing, etc. Same thing that happened in the Northeast and West when the transmission rare was suppressed, people started acting more and more normal and things reopened. Except this time, they'll have good reason to.
- zepto 6y agoWhen herd immunity is reached, then the need will be gone.
- DennisP 6y agoOnly if everybody you come into contact with has been vaccinated. In the meantime, the vaccine might just be turning you into an asymptomatic carrier.
- Exmoor 6y ago> Pre-Alpha test THIS IS NOT SOFTWARE! I cannot believe I continue to see this complete ignorance smugly repeated on HN. The vaccine has undergone three phases of testing including large scale release. It's been "baked" since January, the only things fine tuned have been the exact dose of the mRNA. Given the effectiveness, it's highly unlikely we'll see a v1.1 anytime soon, if ever, but if we do it would likely have to go through similar levels of testing and would be just as "pre-alpha" as this. > On top of it you still have to wear the mask it doesn't stop you spreading the virus. Other comments have already dealt with why we'll still need to use masks. > it doesn't stop you spreading the virus. It just reduces the severity for the people vaccinated. We're still waiting on final data on how much vaccinated people will decrease the spread, but everything we've seen so far indicates that eventual severity of illness correlates very closely with how likely you are to infect others. Even if this wasn't true, reducing severity is huge since universal vaccination would then allow the virus to spread with reduced health effects savings hundreds of thousands of lives.
- AirborneUnicorn 6y agoThis sentiment is one among many reasons why there will be no return to 'normalcy' any time soon after the introduction of vaccines.