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Originally Posted by Halfcan
If you have taken the vaccine then you can't get it from someone who hasn't- so why public shame them?  |
So, I totally understand how you'd feel that way and it's entirely logical, but it's also not really accurate.
First, we know the vaccine is not 100% effective solely based on the trial results. Some people just don't take to the vaccine and develop antibodies to ward off covid. So if you get it and you happen to be around one of these people, it's entirely possible you can transmit it to that person.
Second, and more importantly, there's the risk of variants. Let's take a situation where 5pct of the population takes the vaccine and 95pct don't. You then have 95pct of the population as a petri dish for the virus to continue to mutate, find ways around previously developed antibodies, etc until it's possible there's a new variant that's able to overcome the vaccine. That's highly likely. Take the flip side of that where 95pct get vaccinated and 5pct don't and that petri dish becomes a lot smaller and risk of these mutations is similarly reduced.
That's kinda why people who take the vaccine still have a stake in whether you take the vaccine or not.