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Originally Posted by bc-chris
here's my take.... the vaccines don't make you immune to covid - they make the symptoms less severe. i'm fully vaccinated and say i go to a game and the guy sitting beside me is covid positive and i get it from him. now, i don't get super sick or anything, however, i still have it and bring it home. my wife and daughter are severe asthmatics. my daughter is 8 - she can't get a vaccine. if she gets covid it's likely a death sentence.
our son will get the mildest of mild bugs (he'll be "off" for a a day or two then back to normal) and then our daughter catches the bug from our son - she misses 2 weeks of school. that's already happened three times. it seems like every time she catches a bug it goes right to her lungs.
i had to rush her to hospital the first time she had an asthma attack - the hospital gave her the equivalent of 32 doses of ventolin just to open her airway enough so they could then get different medicine into her lungs to counteract the asthma attack. after 3 days in hospital we were able to bring her home.
so yea - that's my fear - especially since covid attacks the respiratory system.
any policy that helps reduce the spread and severity of this virus the better.
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The situation you laid out is could happen just as easy if the person sitting next to you is vaccinated or not. Vaccinated individuals can still spread Covid to you, so your best bet is to simply stay home all together given how at risk your family members are. Going to an NHL game should d be right at the bottom of your to do list.