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View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications
If your vaxxed why does it matter?
Comment by UnstableUmby at 01/09/2021 at 20:29 UTC
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Because:
1. Vaccination reduces the chance for the virus to mutate. If the virus was able to mutate at a high rate, it would only be a matter of time before it mutated to the point where vaccines were ineffective. It could also mutate to become more contagious and more deadly (which has already happened to an extent with the delta variant). So the ��not being vaccinated only affects me” statement is completely false. It makes it more likely that the entire population will be at risk again.
2. Some people who are at most at risk from COVID, would *like* to get vaccinated, but can’t. They rely on those around them not giving them the disease. And the vaccine reduces transmission rates by over half, even in those where it doesn’t prevent infection completely.