Ask HN: How do I know my Covid-19 vaccine is working?

Re:Ask HN: How do I know my Covid-19 vaccine is working? by h2odragon on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:27AM (#29329310)

They give you a paper card that then people ask to see to prove you've been vaccinated.

Any biological effects the vaccines have are essentially irrelevant, they're a tribal sign and "sacrifice ritual".

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Re:Ask HN: How do I know my Covid-19 vaccine is working? by caeril on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:18PM (#29333975)

Not really sure why this is downvoted.

We now know for a fact that comprehensive population vaccination is not sufficient to reduce the R0-value of the infection below 1, so the "protect others" rationalization is entirely invalid.

Restricting freedom of movement and association on the basis of a mandatory medical treatment that does NOT sterilize the population of something that has long been endemic is purely an authoritarian power play, with a dash of virtue signaling thrown in.

Don't get me wrong, it will definitely help YOU and YOUR own mortality risk, but the population protection argument is a ship that has long since sunk. Any advocacy for mandates at this point is motivated by pure fascistic tyranny, and nothing else.

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