• WuTang @lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    While I’m here, everyone, please get your flu and COVID shots this winter, vaccines work, so don’t get sick, and don’t get other people sick.

    How? as it has been demonstrated that it does not protect against transmission?

    But take your shots please.

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      1 year ago

      It does reduce transmission it just doesn’t reduce it to 0%. Life is not so black and white.

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      1 year ago

      Would’ve been better to say something like: Don’t get as sick and potentially die when you do catch one or both of these viruses. Also stay home when you’re sick.

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      1 year ago

      It does technically reduce transmission potential, though indirectly.

      If you do contract covid or the flu after having been vaccinated, you are less likely to have severe symptoms, including coughing and sneezing. If you’re not coughing up a lung all over the place, you’re not spreading as much as someone who is hocking loogeys over everyone else.

      • freeindv@monyet.cc
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        1 year ago

        Except everyone I know who got the shot has gotten sick way more frequently then those who didn’t. That’s backed up by the data that shows the shots give an initial boost in immunity, but slow negative effectiveness long term