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That is great. But still, vaccinated people shouldn't be told that they cannot get infected. There is this weird misconception floating around that just because
by sacomo 5y ago
That is great. But still, vaccinated people shouldn't be told that they cannot get infected. There is this weird misconception floating around that just because we get vaccinated we are somehow immune to covid-19. That is a dangerous and misguided belief.
- infamouscow 5y agoI thought was actually mattered was hospitalizations and deaths. Why is measuring infections relevant?
- unanswered 5y agoAccording to the public perception, getting COVID is a death sentence. That's all there is to it.
- sacomo 5y agoThe primary goal is to not contract covid-19.
- weezin 5y agoSo what is an appropriate amount of cases to go back to normal?
- sacomo 5y agoPersonally I will keep wearing a mask around other people until we eradicate it or find a 100% preventive vaccine. So decades for me.
- nradov 5y agoWere you wearing a mask in 2019? Because influenza killed thousands of people that year, and we didn't have a 100% preventative vaccine.
- sacomo 5y agohttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30577-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
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- dham 5y agoThat's your choice but note that your choice is not based in science or statistics. Statistically if you're vaccinated you will not die. You won't even get severe Covid. That's even if you get Covid in the first place which would be very hard. If you want to wear a mask as a fashion statement or virtue signaling then that's fine.
- samatman 5y agoHypochondria is a mental illness. It's ok to get help. I'm not mocking you. It's been a traumatic year for all of us.
- ineedasername 5y agoConsidering the vaccine now makes it less likely to die from Covid if infected than the flu, were you wearing a mask for decades before Covid too?
- kelnos 5y agoI strongly suspect we are being trolled at this point.
- kelnos 5y agoThat may be your goal, but that is not the goal of public health policy. If complete eradication was the goal, we would be wearing masks, social distancing, and requiring businesses to operate at lower capacity for many, many years to come. That is just not an acceptable state of life for the vast majority of people in the US. You may not agree with that, but that's just how things are.
- KoftaBob 5y agoThe CDC, FDA, governments, etc have said constantly that the vaccines have a 90-95% efficacy rate. Anyone who somehow interpreted that as "completely immune" has bad reading comprehension. This sounds like a strawman argument that you're making, I don't know where you're getting that there's a misconception of the vaccine equating to 100% immunity. No one said that.
- jfengel 5y agoRight now the primary question is about the comprehension, or lack of same, on the part of anti-vaxers. The actual truth about infections is almost completely irrelevant here. The question is, what tactic will keep us all safest when the primary threat comes from people who are clinically stupid? That's purely a psychology question, and I honestly don't know what the answer is. But it's worth noting that it's pretty much all about strawmen, and which strawmen the anti-vax crowd can be manipulated into believing.
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- tehlike 5y agoYou might find this more useful: https://www.timesofisrael.com/of-fully-vaccinated-israelis-only-0-2-develop-covid-19-symptoms/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/of-fully-vaccinated-israelis-o...
- caddemon 5y agoJ&J definitely does not have >90% efficacy