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If you’re vaccinated, you’re mostly safe, especially with mRNA vaccines. Keep your guard up for now, avoid events that might become super-spreaders, but you don
by enragedcacti 5y ago
If you’re vaccinated, you’re mostly safe, especially with mRNA vaccines. Keep your guard up for now, avoid events that might become super-spreaders, but you don’t need to worry much more than that.
If you’re not vaccinated though, this is a much more dangerous time than March 2020. The transmission rate is higher than it used to be, and if you catch Delta, you’re much more likely to die—or get Long COVID. You should be extra careful, only hang out with other vaccinated people, and avoid dangerous events.
You pretty much have it right. As a vaccinated person you probably don't have to take any different actions. You aren't the only person and for unvaxxed people this article might be what they needed to read or what their loved ones needed to read to try to convince them to get vaccinated.
- egeozcan 5y agoI got vaccinated with J&J and I should then freak out? I've been frantically searching for a source to definitely tell me if it makes sense to get a shot of mRNA based vaccine too to no avail.
- matz1 5y agoNo, you should not freak out even if you are not vaccinated. The overall risk for the unvaccinated are still very low.
- effie 5y ago> only hang out with other vaccinated people This is irrational. 1) According to available data, if you got vaccinated or pulled through COVID, you are well protected against severe COVID illness in future (cell immunity lasts for years). 2) You can get infected with variants both from vaccinated and unvaccinated people. You can't hide from unvaccinated people forever.
- enragedcacti 5y agoonly hang out with other vaccinated people I assumed this was a typo given that it was in the section addressing unvaccinated people. I believe he means to say that if you are unvaccinated your risk is lowered by only spending time with vaccinated people since the data shows that vaccinated people are considerably more protected from delta infection (although less so than earlier strains). That said, I wish more papers and studies would talk about rates for those who pulled through a previous strain of covid and how bad it was when discussing immunities rather than focusing only on vaxxed vs unvaxxed.