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0 pointsiammisc4y ago0 comments

Well what is the effect and purpose of the vax other than to make people lax about social distancing and masks. The vaccine was correctly developed expressly for the purposes of rendering both unnecessary.

If the vax had worked to sterilize or mostly sterilize the virus as originally it was sold to us as, then this would be okay.

Instead it did not really work, thus spreading covid more.

So in the end, we locked down and destroyed the economy in hopes of a vaccine, but the vaz didn't fully work and now we're going to have to open anyway to avert major economic and social disaster.

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TOMDM4y ago· 1 in thread

The vaccine does work.

It lowers your chance of getting it and thus spreading it significantly and it severely lowers your chance of having a severe reaction in the case of a breakthrough infection.

The only reason it hasn't worked at a societal level is that not enough people have taken it.

tacitusarc4y ago

It is not obvious to me this is the case. All available data suggest that between the vaccine and natural immunity, we would have reached herd immunity if such a thing were possible. But we have not, indicating the primary benefit of the vaccine is, and will likely always be, some personal protection. Put differently, we will all get COVID eventually, and would have even if everyone was vaccinated, and the question is just one of the severity of individual cases.

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