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A vaccine isn't for the customer's benefit, it's for the worker's benefit (and society generally, because you can't be a profitable business if society is still
by TameAntelope 6y ago
A vaccine isn't for the customer's benefit, it's for the worker's benefit (and society generally, because you can't be a profitable business if society is still shut down).
If the worker takes fewer overall sick days because they've been vaccinated against the virus, the company benefits by having a more stable workforce than if employees were taking time off to naturally recover from infection.
There's also a legal liability question here -- could an employee sue their employer if they contract COVID-19 at the workplace? I don't think that's been decided conclusively yet.
And for what it's worth, scientists are trying to figure out what kind of vaccine we have -- we just don't know yet, because of how fast this vaccine was developed.
Do we have a "reduce symptoms so people survive the disease" vaccine or do we have a "completely block infection" vaccine? The latter would indeed hamper infection.
This article discusses more: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-19-vaccines-transmission.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-...