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nuerow | 4 years ago

> Vaccine prevents covid (e.g. death and major injury). Somehow vaccinated people are scared of unvaccinated or vaccinated-but-unmasked people. Huh?

You need to get your story straight. Things are quite simple as easy to understand once you take an honest look at the issue. For instance:

* The current generation of COVID-19 vaccines trains the immune system to have a fighting chance against COVID-19 and are effective at practically eliminating the risk of serious illness, but they do not prevent infection or spread.

* Some people cannot take the vaccine, such as the case of pregnant women until recently. Others do continue to be at risk even after taking the vaccine such as those plagued with comorbidities. See Colin Powell.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/colin-powell-suffered-from-a...

* The risk of spawning a new strain that is not handled by the vaccine is proportional to the number of infections, thus contributing to it's spread endangers us all. See how the Delta variant was spawned in India.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-covid-19-breakthrough-ca...

This is widely known by anyone who honestly cares about the subject and did a cursory search on the topic. In my case, the local vaccination drive distributed a leaflet explaining everything. Is any of this info new to you?

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IIAOPSW|4 years ago

>The current generation of COVID-19 vaccines trains the immune system to have a fighting chance against COVID-19 and are effective at practically eliminating the risk of serious illness, but they do not prevent infection or spread.

It does prevent infection and spread. 10% of the time there's a breakthrough case. That is still effective often enough to bring us to herd immunity despite the high infectiousness of Delta.

Everything else is accurate.

ergocoder|4 years ago

From your reasons, opening school is extremely unsafe since kids cannot be vaccinated.

So, what is with the contradictory actions?

nuerow|4 years ago

> From your reasons, opening in school is extremely unsafe since kids cannot be vaccinated.

Taken from:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/questions-answers/que....

"Most children do not develop symptoms when infected with the virus, or they develop a very mild form of the disease. However, research has shown that children can become infected, and can spread the virus to other children and adults while they are infectious."