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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by temp0826 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:42PM (#30089817)
>> The problem is that vaccines don't protect society unless a critical-mass of people are vaccinated.

I'm having a harder and harder time believing this (that herd immunity is actually possible) considering that the vaccine does nothing to stop it from spreading.

(Am vaxed and caught it, fwiw)

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by shepherdjerred on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:22PM (#30091198)
> considering that the vaccine does nothing to stop it from spreading.

Completely untrue. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by nomel on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:56PM (#30095641)
"Stop" and "slow" are very different things and cannot be used interchangeable, if you want to keep your point clear.

And, Omicron is not Delta. Omicron is the current pandemic. Vaccines slows the spread, but keeps its R0 well into the "everyone on earth will probably get it" range.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by ravi-delia on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:48PM (#30089923)
Define nothing, there's definitely some effect from vaccination. It's just much less than the protection from sickness, which is in turn less than the protection from death.
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