> There are many reasons I have heard put forth for why vaccines should be mandated, but one dominant argument stands out: Mandating vaccines will protect vacci

> There are many reasons I have heard put forth for why vaccines should be mandated, but one dominant argument stands out: Mandating vaccines will protect vaccinated people from unvaccinated people. That ones new to me. It almost sounds like a strawman. But I think its just the phrasing. Obviously, vaccinated people are already "protected" from the virus, especially against severe illness and hospitalization, but less so for transmission. So vaccinated people can't really be protected any further, other than by lowering the probability that the person next to them has the virus (which I suppose would be the definition of "protecting vaccinated people" above, or protection from transmission).