Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students
by Jensson on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:45PM
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Omicron spread all throughout the world via vaccinated people at historical record speed. Vaccination is evidently not a good way to prevent spread right now, mandating vaccines to prevent spread therefore doesn't make sense. If you want to prevent spread you mandate a lockdown or similar, not vaccine. Vaccine might help lessen severity, in which case you need to mandate it for populations at risk. But it doesn't make sense to mandate it to prevent spread, since it doesn't.
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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students
by q1w2 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:42PM
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You cannot conclude your 2nd sentence from your first. The relative rates of serious disease AND the transmission rate have both been demonstrated to be lower for vaccinated and boosted people - even with the Omicron variant.
Vaccines, even when not fully effective, greatly reduce the amount of virus you shed, and thus significantly reduce transmission.
Anecdotes are near-worthless, but I will share that my neighbor got covid. He was vaccinated and boosted. His wife and him felt sick, as did their infant (obviously not vaccinated), for two days. TWO DAYS ONLY. ...and their other two children never contracted it at all - tested negative twice each.
Getting vaccinated reduces disease severity AND transmission.