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Originally Posted by haertig
Herd immunity protects the unvaccinated. It doesn't protect the vaccinated part of the herd. Probably in about two months, everyone who wants the vaccine will have been offered it. So if they are still in the unvaccinated part of the herd, it is by choice. There are some people who cannot be vaccinated due to medical conditions - I'm not talking about them.
Once we hit the point where the unvaccinated part of the herd is that way by choice, I will no longer go out of my way to protect them. This is not fair to the people who cannot be vaccinated. But as sad as that is, it is still not a justification to force vaccinate people. Or make everyone wear masks forever. You just can't do that. It's somewhat like people with peanut allergies. We can certainly try to be sensitive to their needs, but banning peanuts outright is a step too far. You can't force people to be good and caring - it doesn't work. So there will still be some cases where an individual strongly wants to be vaccinated, cannot be, then gets covid, and dies. Very sad, but it cannot be 100% prevented.
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A basketball player who had his second vaccination one day was tested positive for COVID-19 the next day. Experts are warning that getting your whole vaccination and waiting two weeks does NOT mean you can’t get COVID-19, it only means that if you do then you should be unlikely to get very I’ll from it and/or die. So I will continue to take all the precautions I can for months to come. Judging from this past weekend where young people flooded the beaches and streets of south FL and other Spring Break locations without wearing masks, there are plenty of people out and about who have no care for others. Those spring breakers are most likely not vaccinated yet, and they will likely create a huge surge in COVID-19 cases.