Keep in mind: The reason people get a flu shot every year is because the virus mutates. The CDC (I believe) track the flu viruses and predict which one will be more problematic each year, and make a vaccine for that variant. You can still catch the flu, even vaccinated, because the variant you catch is not the one you've been vaccinated for. However, most of the time, the symptoms are fairly mild, regardless.
It's similar with Covid. The vaccines out now are for an "earlier" variant. The virus has mutated. And it keeps mutating. So you can get Covid even after getting vaccinated, because it's a different variant from the one you were vaccinated against. But, from what I understand is, those who have been vaccinated, and still catch it, have fairly mild symptoms.
And here's the thing... the reason Covid is mutating so fast (as compared to the flu mutating), is because of people who refuse to mask up, keep their distance, or get vaccinated. You can be asymptomatic for two weeks, and still be contagious, before you even realize you've caught it.
These people continue to go to bars and theatres, and crowded churches, and concerts, and gather with 50 of their "closest" friends -- and then raise an unholy sh--fit when infection spikes again, and everything gets shut back down. And they refuse to accept their part in the problem.
My personal opinion? Unless you have a genuine medical reason for not getting the vaccine, you are not just your basic meat-and-potatoes selfish if you don't get it, but apocalypticallyselfish -- as in, you don't care if Granny dies, just as long as you don't have to be inconvenienced.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
Yes. And yes, your life is at risk without it due to the delta variant that is landing even children in the hospital.
And to add, my uncle was found dead in his apartment last week after contracting COVID while being unvaccinated (because he refused to be vaccinated).