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What goes unexplored is to what degree are the rates of COVID in the vaccinated population influenced by the unvaccinated population, given the fact that they w
by captainbland 5y ago
What goes unexplored is to what degree are the rates of COVID in the vaccinated population influenced by the unvaccinated population, given the fact that they will be increasing overall rates of transmission? Might we have a shrinking incidence of COVID if more people were vaccinated rather than a growing one? Might that mitigate the effects of declining immunity? Depending on the answers to these questions, vaccine scepticism/hesitancy (if not the unvaccinated as such, who may have e.g. medical reasons for not getting it, and on a worldwide scale availability may be a concern) may still be justifiable to stigmatise regardless of incidence of COVID within the vaccinated population today.
That said, political rhetoric is more wide-reaching than just the underlying epidemiological reality. When considering whether this is justified we must also take into account the societal effects of this rhetoric; will this effectively weaponise peer pressure against vaccine sceptics to society's overall advantage? Or simply cause them to dig their heels in? Maybe it's a gamble, although it feels like the losing outcome may be to simply drive another fault through an already polarised social world.