• IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    No. For multiple reasons:

    • Vaccines are not 100% effective. They reduce the likelihood of infection if you are exposed. The whole point of trying to get everyone vaccinated is to reduce the infection rate so that there’s less likely to be an outbreak. With a vaccinated population, the virus can’t spread fast enough to maintain a pool of infected people to keep spreading it. But that doesn’t mean nobody gets sick.
    • Vaccines are not as effective on some people. There’s a range of effectiveness.
    • Not everyone can get vaccinated. People with certain allergies or compromised immune systems in particular.
    • Some parts of the population have higher risk factors than others and when they get sick it can be much more serious. Usually the very old and the very young. And again, people with compromised immune systems, or other conditions that complicate the illness.
    • Kids whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated are put at elevated risk through no fault of their own.

    I could probably keep going, but hopefully you get the idea why that’s just not a viable approach.

    • blakenong@lemmings.world
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      7 hours ago

      If they have the vaccine and it doesn’t work, then fine. But if they refuse it without being one of the small groups of people with a diagnosed and documented reason to not get it, then they should stay home and tough it out.