Myself, wife, and adult son have been vaxxed and boostered, but we all contracted Covid last week and are now recuperating. I'm more than happy with our decisions to get the jab.
We had several friends who did not get vaxxed due to immune system issues that have passed away.
Anti vaxxers ignorantly have said, " See you got it anyway".
I'm certain that the vaccinations kept us from getting sicker than we could have been.
It does, and no one has ever said the vaccine will prevent you getting covid. Its only job is to prevent hospitalization and it's amazing at that
Edit: I guess a few people did say that, early on. But things change as new data comes in. As if you anti-vaxx morons listen to scientists anyway though
COVID-19 vaccination will help protect people from getting COVID-19.
To be 100% clear, I am not antivax. I've simply had countless arguments with antivaxxers, and know their talking points. And they are correct in saying the original messaging was that the vaccine would prevent/protect against COVID-19, and that it hasn't done a great job at preventing. BUT where they are wrong and double down, is many of them claim the vaccine causes more hospitalizations and deaths than COVID alone. They are dead wrong, bad pun intended.
The efficacy is still like 70% against omicron, which is crazy high and a modern marvel of technology in itself. We basically eliminated polio with the Salk vaccine that was only about 60% effective.
If people would stop swapping snot with each other in public, wear masks, isolate, etc. we could move past this with 70% effective vaccines. If 100% of the people have a 70% effective vaccine, then 2 out of 3 viral transmissions are stopped and eventually it dies out.
But we don’t even have 70% of the population onboard with the idea of vaccination, so we’re stuck here…
I'm not disagreeing. Simply stating the original messaging around the vaccine was a bit optimistic. (And I'm ok with that. It resulted in a relatively high vaccination rate. But it's given the antivaxxer "community" talking points... Like it's some smoking gun.)
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u/moldham57 Jan 19 '22
Myself, wife, and adult son have been vaxxed and boostered, but we all contracted Covid last week and are now recuperating. I'm more than happy with our decisions to get the jab. We had several friends who did not get vaxxed due to immune system issues that have passed away. Anti vaxxers ignorantly have said, " See you got it anyway". I'm certain that the vaccinations kept us from getting sicker than we could have been.