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View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications
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.
Comment by Invasio_communis at 01/09/2021 at 21:32 UTC
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So people who are vaccinated think they are safe and chose to go to super spreader events and catch covid and don’t show any symptoms (or do, eventually), and spread it to those vaccinated and unvaccinated? How is the vaccine that wains after 3 months better than natural immunity or avoiding social gatherings entirely? Why would I get the vaccine if I am healthy and my dr. and I believe the risk factors of the vaccine (for me) outweigh the risk of covid?
Also wouldn’t the vaccinated who get the virus and spread it be the ones creating stronger variants, as the virus becomes more resistant, similar to superbugs and antibiotic resistant bacteria?
What do you say about things like Mereks disease in chickens caused by leaky vaccines that have created a virus so strong it is fatal without the intervention of a synthesized vaccine?