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While I'm here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don't get sick, and don't get other people sick.
How? as it has been demonstrated that it does not protect against transmission?
But take your shots please.
Would've been better to say something like: Don't get as sick and potentially die when you do catch one or both of these viruses. Also stay home when you're sick.
It does reduce transmission it just doesn't reduce it to 0%. Life is not so black and white.
It does technically reduce transmission potential, though indirectly.
If you do contract covid or the flu after having been vaccinated, you are less likely to have severe symptoms, including coughing and sneezing. If you're not coughing up a lung all over the place, you're not spreading as much as someone who is hocking loogeys over everyone else.
Anti vaxxers need your own island. You'd... "sort yourselves out"... in about 10 years.
Strange, so you are protected, you would apparently protect from transmitting too SO why unvaxxed to COVID (not antivaxx, little schmug) would have to isolate on an island?
you see how crazy you are?
Not everyone who wants to be vaccinated against covid can be vaccinated.
And not everyone who is vaccinated can receive the full benefits of vaccination due to being immunocompromised.
As someone who gets a Hep B vaccine every single year, I do what I can to protect myself, but my body is incapable of producing antibodies long term, it's because of an autoimmune condition, not because the vaccine isn't widely effective. I'm always going to be more susceptible to it (and I work in healthcare so I have to keep getting the vaccine). I'm lucky I only have this issue with hep b, my other vaccines seem to have "taken", but I'm not alone, there are many people out there that have this issue with various vaccines.
My cousin had an anaphylactic reaction to the flu vaccine a few years ago, he can't take it again. He's in a vulnerable position because he has a trachy, so his airways don't have as much natural protection. He has to trust that his co-workers will stay away from him if they catch the flu, because he can't get vaccinated even though he wants and needs to.
Did you intend to make some kind of point here?