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Regardless of what the findings might be when we get to know them eventually the take away right now for me is that vaccines does not do enough of a difference to stop the spread of the virus.
This is a bit of a daft statement really, they have slowed the spread of the virus and given those vaccinated protection against serious illness and death. They haven't immediately stopped the spread of the virus but then enough people in vaccinated populations and enough mostly unvaccinated populations existed to allow it to spread, and now mutate to avoid some of the protection provided by the vaccines. Even vaccines that "worked" by fully stopping something, like smallpox, or almost stopping it like polio have taken decades to do so with global programs. Things would be much worse without vaccines slowing the spread.
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We all know that it protects against serious illness and death. Its like this is repeated to validate something that its not up for discussion. Is it in this context u are discussing this, wether or not vaccines are good or not? Am i in your mind saying something to the effect of vaccines are pointless, bad or should not have been used etc etc?
This is not whats discussed, at least not by me.
badboybjorn
I dont think thats true on any scale that would greatly change statistics in this regard. Its not like everyone who has not taken the vaccine are anti-vaxxers. A big part i would assume are ppl with concearns about their health and dont like to put "unknowns" into their bodies. I can see quite a big chunk of unvaccinated beeing even more eager to test their symptoms as they know it could get worse for them without a vaccine.
One could also speculate that a huge chunk of vaccinated ppl are the old and frail and as such have a lot less social contacts so should be less likely to catch covid in the first place yet show up as much in the statistics as having caught it.
Many ways to speculate around this. Regardless of what the findings might be when we get to know them eventually the take away right now for me is that vaccines does not do enough of a difference to stop the spread of the virus.