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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by roenxi on Monday October 11, 2021 @08:33AM (#28827603)
No, I wouldn't accept that approach either. But at least it would be focusing on the risk instead of being a status play. At the moment you're accepting a risk without knowing anyone's antibody titer at all. It says a lot about the situation that nobody is measuring it and nobody minds that it isn't being measured. People's susceptibility to COVID is barely in the conversation. A risk-based strategy is not being employed.

Despite all these measures you are still going to be exposed to the coronavirus. Just like the every flu that we've dealt with for the last however many thousand years. This rigmarole is just upsetting people for no real gain to you.

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by Cederfjard on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:51AM (#28828290)
I'd consider lives saved as a gain.
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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by MattRix on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:51AM (#28828289)
Of course everyone around you being vaccinated is safer and less risky for you (and for them as well). And sure there are other approaches that might be even more effective at reducing risk (like measuring antibodies), but that would also be much more complicated.
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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by EricE on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:12AM (#28840716)
What is "less risk"? If you mean being exposed to someone who can shed the virus, vaccinated people can shed the virus asymptomatically. You are far more likely to unknowingly be exposed to the virus from a vaccinated person than from an unvaccinated person.

Our media and so-called health leaders have dramatically oversold the value of these vaccines. Yes, they can help with the severity of reaction when you are exposed but they aren't some defensive bubble.

And I think that's the real issue here - being exposed to the virus and each persons reaction and risks carried in that reaction to the exposure are two different things, but they are lumped together - which shouldn't be.

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