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> It reduces your risk of serious illness to the point of irrelevance. For the most part, and if you're healthy. Unfortunately in a hospital you're working wit

> It reduces your risk of serious illness to the point of irrelevance. For the most part, and if you're healthy. Unfortunately in a hospital you're working with people that are vulnerable. Why is this such a controversial thing anyways? In the past we've made vaccines mandatory.

dkdk8283 5y ago
The vaccine isn’t without side effects, and there is still a debate about whether natural immunity is sufficient.
- beervirus 5y ago
  The he side effects are trivial. Just get the vaccine and stop deluding yourself.
  - dkdk8283 5y ago
    No. You’re just assuming that it’s by choice.
beerandt 5y ago
Because you're still allowing people who can transmit the disease around these "vulnerable" patients. And the line drawn isn't even an arbitrary number, but an arbitrary policy with an assumed improvement. An improvement that we know isn't good enough to prevent spread in populations with near 100% vaccination rates.
- jjwiseman 5y ago
  It's a free, safe vaccine that significantly reduces the spread of the virus that has caused a global pandemic over the last 18 months or so. If you're a health care worker and you won't get vaccinated, you probably should find a new line of work. It doesn't need to be 100% effective at stopping spread to be an excellent idea.