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If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? If Covid vaccination is a vaccination i true sens

If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? If Covid vaccination is a vaccination i true sense the above assumption should apply to it no ? Also using a government agency intended for construction / mining hard hat and fall safety for vaccinating people who don’t want to get vaccinated for personal medical reasons is outrageous. This is the kind of stuff that happens in a communist country like North Korea

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
> If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? Vaccines don't work like that. They give you a better chance of not getting something (chicken pox vaccine is 90% effective), and the rest of the vaccine's effectiveness is made up in scale (if everyone has 90% resistance, the virus has nowhere to "catch hold" and just disappears). Many people don't get that, and think vaccines should either be 100% effective or they shouldn't be used at all, or they don't understand that they only work well when they are applied at scale (which is why schools mandate many vaccines with few exceptions). > his is the kind of stuff that happens in a communist country like North Korea Or America in the 1950s and 1960s when they wanted to get rid of polio, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis, etc... It is crazy: America back then didn't care about these nut case concerns, they were just focused on getting the job done. What happened to this country?
- mindslight 5y ago
  Postmodern (post-truth) politics, affluenza-induced solipsism, and mass media selling domestic influence on the international market.
- iammisc 5y ago
  By all reasonable metrics, the covid vaccine makes the risk of covid negligible for all interested groups. If you're worried get the vaccine (I have) and carry on. Sticking your nose in everyone else's business is just unhealthy. If others don't want to get it. That is their decision
  - seanmcdirmid 5y ago
    Again, that’s just not how vaccines work. They are a libertarian nightmare because they require societal buy in to be effective.
Arainach 5y ago
>If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? When my "friend" is taking up an ICU bed at the local hospital and I die from a heart attack that would have been easily treatable when there were beds available, I care. When I can't get the surgery I need to deal with cancer because the hospital is overstressed dealing with my "friends", I care. Every time the virus infects someone, it replicates millions of times inside their body. If one of those mutations is more contagious and prolongs this pandemic, I care. As other posters have told you, vaccines aren't 100%. I get my flu shot each year and I still don't want to spend time around people who have a cold.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago

> If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? Vaccines don't work like that. They give you a better chance of not getting something (chicken pox vaccine is 90% effective), and the rest of the vaccine's effectiveness is made up in scale (if everyone has 90% resistance, the virus has nowhere to "catch hold" and just disappears). Many people don't get that, and think vaccines should either be 100% effective or they shouldn't be used at all, or they don't understand that they only work well when they are applied at scale (which is why schools mandate many vaccines with few exceptions). > his is the kind of stuff that happens in a communist country like North Korea Or America in the 1950s and 1960s when they wanted to get rid of polio, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis, etc... It is crazy: America back then didn't care about these nut case concerns, they were just focused on getting the job done. What happened to this country?

mindslight 5y ago
Postmodern (post-truth) politics, affluenza-induced solipsism, and mass media selling domestic influence on the international market.
iammisc 5y ago
By all reasonable metrics, the covid vaccine makes the risk of covid negligible for all interested groups. If you're worried get the vaccine (I have) and carry on. Sticking your nose in everyone else's business is just unhealthy. If others don't want to get it. That is their decision
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  Again, that’s just not how vaccines work. They are a libertarian nightmare because they require societal buy in to be effective.

Arainach 5y ago

>If I am vaccinated for chicken pox why do I have to worry if my friend is not vaccinated for it and gets it ? When my "friend" is taking up an ICU bed at the local hospital and I die from a heart attack that would have been easily treatable when there were beds available, I care. When I can't get the surgery I need to deal with cancer because the hospital is overstressed dealing with my "friends", I care. Every time the virus infects someone, it replicates millions of times inside their body. If one of those mutations is more contagious and prolongs this pandemic, I care. As other posters have told you, vaccines aren't 100%. I get my flu shot each year and I still don't want to spend time around people who have a cold.