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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Breakout cases are a small risk to vaccinated public. Do they happen? Yep, though at a fairly small percentage. Those numbers will rise as the efficacy of the original round of vaccines wanes. But more importantly than being infected, is being protected from hospitalization or serious illness. That's why I quantified with small in regards to the risk.  I don't mind getting sick, it happens all the time with kids in school, but I want to be able to manage it at home like any other mild illness.
I didn't say breakout cases were reasoning to not be vaccinated, but rather the unsurety regarding the safety (short term or long term) of the vaccines is an understandable concern some people have. We may not agree with their conclusion regarding the data, but after children can be vaccinated, unvaccinated individuals will pose little threat of serious illness. It will be akin to those who do not opt for the flu shot at that point. At least, that is, if the data being reported is accurate. <<< But that's a whole other discussion. LoL |
If there's one thing I disagree with you on, it's your belief that what the unvaccinated do have no impact on the rest of the general public.
We have sufficient amount of hosts (90 or so millions) remaining in the unvaccinated population to allow the virus time to develop more mutations, time to pass on its genetic materials.
You seem to discount this possibility by saying everyone have their freedom of choice and these unvaccinated have no impact on the rest of the population.
Well what about the children? We're just now starting the vaccination effort on the young ones, while a substantial part of the adults remain liable for infection.
IMHO covid is a public health and safety concern and "public health" means the decisions each and everyone of us make on how to deal with covid directly or indirectly affects the efforts to combat it.
Which is why there's strong merit for public mandates like mask wearing, social distancing, contact tracing, quarantine, and vaccination.
It is certainly not up to anyone of us layman to decide whether the danger of this pandemic raises to the level requiring mandates on vaccination.
That should be a decision by CDC experts.