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I understand your position on antivaxers. My position is completely at odds with theirs. I had the vaccine because it is right and proper to do so and gives me the most immunity and protection that I am being offered. It is important that everyone should do that as we can then move to reduce and possibly eradicate the threat of the virus. That said, it is equally important to appreciate that having one or two jabs will not mean that one cannot catch and pass on the virus.One is not immune in the way that one is from a smallpox vaccine. One can get it but is likely to be less seriously ill. More concerningly, one can pass it on and therefore, even with the vaccine, one must be cautious until such time as everyone has had the vaccination.
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I read your first post as saying that one dose of the vaccine was not particularly useful in protecting yourself against covid, which bothers me, because playing down the usefulness plays into anti-vaxer's hands. (Which I don't see you as, given the fact you've had the vaccine)
This is true, but I don't see what point is being made?
From JVT in this evening's presentation:
Both vaccines are 60%+ effective at preventing ALL illness 1 month after the first dose.
On top of that, after 1 dose, they are reducing hospitalisations by 80%, and deaths by 85%
*death reduction stats only currently available for Phizer.