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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
The most dangerous element of all of the vaccine coverage by the media is and has been making it seem like fully vaccinated people will not get covid. Now you get vaccine hesitant or antivaxx degenerates reading this material and further reinforcing their stance.
I could care less if the protection rate falls to 50% or whatever, provided I am still highly unlikely to suffer severe illness and wind up in the hospital or ICU. Much better coverage is required in terms of making clear what the typical fully vaccinated case of covid really looks like to keep the misinformation and fear mongering down.
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You have a valid point. But there is a danger of messaging like that too. If the only reason to get a vaccine is to protect yourself, that opens up the anti-vaxxers to say why should a vaxxed person care if I get my vaccine since you are protected and the purpose is more to save the live of the vaccinated person, not control the spread.
The right message is that it is beneficial to individuals to not get as severely sick or die, and beneficial to society since it is not 100%. To be fully effective in saving everyone's lives, everyone or almost everyone needs to get it. 50% efficacy means even a higher percentage of people need it to end this mess.
That message is too complicated and nuanced to reach everyone it needs too though. I don't think there is a message that would work well. It's either mandate it somehow or deal with the fact that the vaccine won't be the end of it and hope this delta wave is the last wave.