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The vaccine isn't about reducing transmission. Let's be clear on that. It's about reducing severity of symptoms. Vaccinated people can absolutely catch and spread this thing, albeit at lower rates. What vaccinated people do not do, however, is go to the hospital and die on a respirator.
Comment by XirallicBolts at 31/08/2021 at 09:52 UTC*
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Ok. Why is it so absolutely critical that I, a healthy adult, get it -- if the odds of me requiring hospitalization are near-zero? I likely already had it and didn't even develop a cough.
Nearly 50% of US covid deaths also had influenza/pneumonia. Subtract the 95% of US covid deaths that had comorbidities (influenza, cardiac arrest, suicide, SIDS, fell off a ladder, car accident, drug overdose, struck by lightning...) and we're left with 20,000 US deaths last year.
The seasonal flu shot has been -- *and still is* -- optional despite being responsible for 30,000 US deaths every year. There's no massive campaign telling everyone "get your seasonal flu shot or be denied normalcy". Nobody's being called a selfish grandma-killer antivaxxer for not getting a flu shot.