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Parent comment: "The goal is to get people to vaccinate, which is reasonable enough." Your summary of their position is so bad I've flagged your comment: "if i

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• bluGill 5y ago
  I'm summarizing him and everyone else with attitudes like his: the vaccine isn't 100% so it is nothing. Maybe I'm a bit extreme, but at this point I am tired seeing the same ensconce.
  • blagie 5y ago
    My attitude is to vaccinate and to continue to maintain reasonable precautions. You are very extreme, and people like you are exactly why many people take a polarizing view on the other end of the spectrum. This is a nice video on polarization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc My own estimate is that the vaccine is about 50% effective for delta. That's cuts R0 in half, which is huge, but not something you can in any way, shape, or form rely on in isolation. It will likely be even lower for future mutations. Aside from the antivaxer movement, another outcome of extreme pro-vaccine stances, to the level of people lying, is that many people take NO precautions once vaccinated. That's a lot of what's driving some (not all) of the current delta outbreaks. And on the anti-vaxxer side, once scientists get caught fabricating data, they're not going to be trusted even when they're right.