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If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not? I mean sure, there is a small chance someone could infect you, and a much much smaller chance that

If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not? I mean sure, there is a small chance someone could infect you, and a much much smaller chance that than infection actually causes you a hospitalisation, but it’s not a big risk once you are vaccinated yourself. If you think the vaccine works, which I assume you do, then why do you need to know others vaccine status?

lvturner 5y ago
_I_ don't need to know it, but my friend who can't take the vaccine as she is pregnant might wish to use the information to make risk assessments. Further: it is literally illegal not to wear a mask here in certain public areas - I'm specifically interested in how one would enforce that if you split between those who have to wear masks and those who now don't have to.
- Exmoor 5y ago
  Also until literally today nobody under 16 could get vaccinated and we're still several months away from vaccines possibly being approved for children. Studies show kids are less likely to catch and spread it, and when they do catch it they have less averse impacts than adults, but I'd still prefer if my kids don't catch it.
- matthewbauer 5y ago
  Supposedly, pregnant women can get the vaccine. In fact, it’s recommended due to risk of certain complications with getting covid-19 while pregnant.
- rsfern 5y ago
  FYI it’s probably low risk for pregnant women to take the mRNA vaccines. If your friend wants to be vaccinated but is uncomfortable maybe they can specifically ask their GP about it? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...
wyldfire 5y ago
> If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not? I care -- in that, I'd prefer for their sake and for everyone else's that they were vaccinated. The vaccine's not perfect. However, for the purposes of wearing masks or not: I don't care. Let's take them off and hope that the unvaccinated make the right choice of keeping the mask on. I imagine that very nearly zero will, but in the baseline case I didn't know who wasn't vaccinated against yet-more-serious infectious diseases. So this will be returning to the level of nonzero risk that we were before. We engage in risky activities all the time without blinking, let's please all treat this risk with the appropriate relative weight. If you have energy to fight the good fight, become a positive role model for vaccination. Don't mock or ridicule the antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant. Just show them the right path.

lvturner 5y ago

_I_ don't need to know it, but my friend who can't take the vaccine as she is pregnant might wish to use the information to make risk assessments. Further: it is literally illegal not to wear a mask here in certain public areas - I'm specifically interested in how one would enforce that if you split between those who have to wear masks and those who now don't have to.

Exmoor 5y ago
Also until literally today nobody under 16 could get vaccinated and we're still several months away from vaccines possibly being approved for children. Studies show kids are less likely to catch and spread it, and when they do catch it they have less averse impacts than adults, but I'd still prefer if my kids don't catch it.
matthewbauer 5y ago
Supposedly, pregnant women can get the vaccine. In fact, it’s recommended due to risk of certain complications with getting covid-19 while pregnant.
rsfern 5y ago
FYI it’s probably low risk for pregnant women to take the mRNA vaccines. If your friend wants to be vaccinated but is uncomfortable maybe they can specifically ask their GP about it? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/pregnancy.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...

wyldfire 5y ago

> If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not? I care -- in that, I'd prefer for their sake and for everyone else's that they were vaccinated. The vaccine's not perfect. However, for the purposes of wearing masks or not: I don't care. Let's take them off and hope that the unvaccinated make the right choice of keeping the mask on. I imagine that very nearly zero will, but in the baseline case I didn't know who wasn't vaccinated against yet-more-serious infectious diseases. So this will be returning to the level of nonzero risk that we were before. We engage in risky activities all the time without blinking, let's please all treat this risk with the appropriate relative weight. If you have energy to fight the good fight, become a positive role model for vaccination. Don't mock or ridicule the antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant. Just show them the right path.