Just three things about vaccines

[airiefairie]

And I get tired of repeating these to anti-vaxxers.

1. Vaccines are not supposed to prevent virus transmittal. That's not how they work. Their job is to significantly cut your chance of getting very sick. No one has ever claimed that vaccinated people cannot contract or transmit the virus. That's why the measures remain valid for them too, like distancing, masks etc.

2. No one has ever claimed that vaccines are 100% bulletproof. This is in response to the question how come vaccinated people still get the virus.

3. The virus will mutate more often if it has a wider ground for spreading. The idea of vaccination is, one, to cut the number of heavily sick and thus ease the burden off of the health-care system (which we all pay for through our taxes), and two, to narrow the chance of the virus evolving into new variants, which would eventually extinguish the pandemic.

I'm afraid there's no way I could possibly explain this in a simpler way.

Comments

[dewline]

I think you got it well enough. Not your fault that there are still people determined to ignore every reminder of these facts.

[fridi]

Good luck talking sense into some people.

[jazzyjj]

Agreed with all of you. I wonder what these anti-vaxxers would say to someone like me, being in a high-risk category due to organ transplantation. I posed this question to my father, who at the time had some siblings who were Trump supporters. He said perhaps they would've made an exception since they love me and don't want to see me harmed in any way. I think most of them have since stopped supporting the Don. On a related note however, a friend of mine is currently visiting family in a state that has a low vaccination rate. He is fully vaccinated like me, but these family members are not and I'm a bit worried. But he tells me and others that he's going to quarantine when he returns and get tested. One of the family members already had COVID-19 last year.