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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by macintux on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:08AM (#25160532)
* the vaccine is not 100% effective

* we don’t yet know whether the vaccine prevents transmission. You can probably be a carrier and spreader even if vaccinated

Those two facts alone mean we’re going to be wearing masks for quite some time, things won’t go back to normal for a while, and people are justified in being upset with others who refuse to protect everyone around them.

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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by bamboozled on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:29AM (#25160707)
If we don’t even know a basic facts about the vaccine (whether people vaccinated can still transmit, how long it lasts), isn’t it natural for people too feel concerned about what else we don’t know ?

Seems to be a few unknowns still ?

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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by floatingatoll on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#25161174)
It’s natural for people to want perfect certainty before making health care decisions. That’s why public health policy exists: because there is never perfect certainty in vaccination, and yet we’ll be required to all the same.
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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by unnouinceput on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:26AM (#25160677)
You really missed my point. Read again my above comment.
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