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Up to now, Covid hasn't been lethal enough or common enough for 100% of people to want to be vaccinated. It takes multiple people among one's friends and famil
by newsbinator 5y ago
Up to now, Covid hasn't been lethal enough or common enough for 100% of people to want to be vaccinated.
It takes multiple people among one's friends and family dropping like flies to convince people in vaccine-hesitant places with ample supply (e.g. Bulgaria) to chose to get vaccinated.
Also it wouldn't hurt if vaccines were actually effective at preventing infection (rather than allowing infection but preventing severe disease)... and if they lasted more than half a year.
- Kye 5y agoThe vaccines last more than half a year. Certain nice-to-have bonus effects beyond "you probably won't die or suffer long-term effects and you're less likely to spread it" fade a bit after six months. The booster is for the nice-to-haves, like reducing symptomatic but minor-moderate infections.
- makomk 5y agoEvery single benefit of the vaccines seem to fade over six months or so - not justt symptomatic infections, but also protection against serious effects, hospitalization, and death. That's why there's been so much push for boosters even in countries like the UK which have given up on stopping the spread of the virus. (Yes, I know the WHO is opposed to booster shots, but frankly they seem to be a bunch of idiots who care more about what's politically useful than reality these days.)