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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by c7DJTLrn on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:20AM (#28276127)
1. Those who are vaccinated have a significant reduction in risk of death (not to mention that the risk is very minute for young people anyway), so that's a moot point

2. Some vaccinated people have been found to carry the same levels of the virus as unvaccinated people, so stating that unvaccinated people could be increasing risk to others is also a moot point

3. Once the so called "R" rate is below one, the virus is on a path to fizzling out

It's not as though unvaccinated people will be dying in their thousands for centuries to come. Herd immunity just needs to kick in which many countries have already achieved.

Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by bluGill on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:42AM (#28276493)
> Some vaccinated people have been found to carry the same levels of the virus as unvaccinated people, so stating that unvaccinated people could be increasing risk to others is also a moot point

Some is in this case a small minority. In general you have the same level up to about day 5, then vaccinated drops down to zero over the next few days while vaccinated levels keep raising for several more days.

Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by eightysixfour on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:29AM (#28276277)
1) It isn’t a moot point when vaccinated individuals need ICU beds for other emergencies, which are still happening. This isn’t a theoretical, this is happening in the Southeastern US.
Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by renaudg on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:54PM (#28280324)
Even with the "same level of virus" vaccinated people are much less contagious : https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1429449468261322759