Except, no. Two important considerations: 1. The vaccine is extraordinarily effective at mitigating risk of hospitalization and death. 2. No current COVID va

Except, no. Two important considerations: 1. The vaccine is extraordinarily effective at mitigating risk of hospitalization and death. 2. No current COVID vaccines are sterilizing. Vaccination confers only marginal reduction in ability to carry and transmit the virus (and even this, mainly due to duration, not due to viral load). Taken together, the "get vaccinated to protect me" canard is insane. I don't care if other people are vaccinated or not, because I am. Any other position is political, not scientific. There is a minor argument to be had over the (tiny) immunocompromised population, but it's important to bear in mind that this population already does conduct their lives with isolation, antiviral, antibacterial, and other safety protocols regardless of COVID. They did it before the pandemic, and they will after. Nothing changes for them regardless of vaccine uptake rates.