> why are people upset with him standing up against these pointless vaccine mandates?

In these events he is not standing up against anything. He appears to be quietly proving false statements about his test results and/or his recent travel history in order to manipulate the system to his advantage (i.e. gain the ability to take part in a tournament in a country he is likely not eligible to enter).

Nobody's upset about his beliefs. However if you don't meet entry requirements to a country, you shouldn't be surprised if you're not let in.

They don’t prevent the spread or contraction of the virus but they reduce the transmission period and greatly reduce the severity of the disease if a fully vaccinated person contracts Covid-19. They may not be a panacea but they’re a very useful tool in dealing with Covid-19 and keeping people out of hospital unnecessarily.

> keeping people out of hospital

Are there many previously young and healthy people ending up in hospital with Covid?

> Are there many previously young and healthy people ending up in hospital with Covid?

Yes, of course, more than a thousand of children and young adults in their prime died just in US.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wrecked-lives-families-young-adult...

250 0-4 year olds died with Covid and 573 5-18 year olds died with Covid. Remember these are people that died in the hospital with a positive Covid test. One study out of UCSF found more than 40% of kids hospitalized with Covid were there for a reason other than Covid, like a broken arm, and then also tested positive with an asymptotic case. Likely the kids dying with Covid could be overcounted as well.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids...

The time to have this discussion was two years ago. We are talking about children and youngs that were killed by Covid, not with Covid and the number is 'too much' to keep ignoring the plain facts.

Because boostered individuals have a drastically reduced infection risk by 80%.

On top of they are 66% less infectious when being infected since they clear the virus twice as fast and 40% of their virus particles are dead.

This gives them an overall reduced risk of infecting someone else by 93%.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266831v...

https://news.arizona.edu/story/covid-19-vaccine-reduces-seve...

Thanks for the info and those links. There hasn't been nearly enough public information on _how_ jabs help. The rhetoric is always 'get jabbed because it protects health services', which despite being true, leaves a lot out. It also doesn't help that a lot of easily accessible information is contradictory and focuses on considering one's own heath rather than everyone's.

> This gives them an overall reduced risk of infecting someone else by 93%

Q: How long does that reduced risk persist for?

Then read this story:

We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months, says JCVI chief https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/03/fourth-covid-jab...

"Prof Sir Andrew Pollard said there was no point in trying to stop all infections, and that 'at some point, society has to open up'"