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0 pointsacdha4y ago0 comments

The vaccines clearly do protect people by a significant degree, and as we’ve seen they’ve also been highly effective against strains which arose after the initial development. That makes it quite reasonable to expect that vaccinated people will fare better against future variants, and even if you’re a complete sociopath who doesn’t care about the human cost, that means society will be better off with fewer disruptions due to illness and less stress on the medical system.

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ls154y ago· 2 in thread

That's some other goalpost (with regard to mandating vaccinations). Vitamin D clearly does protect people by a significant degree and it is not mandated.

> and even if you’re a complete sociopath who doesn’t care about the human cost

Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, a complete sociopath who does not care about overriding people's personal medical decisions and moves the goalpost over and over in order to achieve that goal as we were able to see in popular media during the pandemic.

acdhaOP4y ago

> Vitamin D clearly does protect people by a significant degree and it is not mandated.

Mandates are rare and restricted to things which are well-established scientifically, like the efficacy of vaccination.

ls154y ago

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11739-021-02902-w

> In this large observational population study, we show a significant association between vitamin D deficiency and the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection and of severe disease in those infected.

There are many other studies that say the same.

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