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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by helsinkiandrew on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:03AM (#30146391)
> We're also living in the world where certain governments are mandating vaccines that pose 50% higher excess risk of myocarditis compared to an infection[1].

If everybody else takes a vaccine it is almost always far safer for you not to take it. Vaccines help society by stopping illnesses spreading, they just need enough people to collectively accept the personal risk for the good of everyone else - the same was true for Polio, TB, measles.

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by mAritz on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:17AM (#30146480)
This is also a simplification.

If the vaccines are creating sterilizing immunity, this might be true. For example the measles vaccine does that.

But for all current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines we have we don't get sterilizing immunity.

So it can still make sense to get vaccinated even if society at large is vaccinated.

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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by immibis on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:23AM (#30147177)
What is sterilizing immunity?
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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m... by mAritz on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:49AM (#30259011)
It's when you get immune to getting infected by a virus - antibodies neutralize the virus particles before they can do any harm or meaningfully replicate. All current (and probably future) SARS-CoV-2 vaccines don't do this. Through a combination of several vaccinations and infections the hope is that you get close to sterilizing immunity.
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