Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices

Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by ngc248 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:02AM (#27994364)

If they don't vaccine and don't venture out it is fine. But if they don't take the vaccine and do go to work etc, the risk of them catching corona is higher. They in turn can spread to others.

We have seen the kind of snowballing effect 1 or 2 infected can cause.

Of course vaccines do not have 100% efficacy rate, but the risk of getting corona and its effects is at least a bit reduced if you get vaccinated.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by colechristensen on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:00PM (#27998655)

>is at least a bit reduced

Reporting is that almost no intensive care patients in the US these days have been vaccinated.

We're not scared of covid-19 because it'll make us feel shitty for a few days, we're scared of it putting people on ventilators or killing them. There is a very strong signal that vaccination makes the rates of severe negative outcomes of infection very very small - down to the levels of many other rarely severe diseases which don't justify significant action.

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