• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Who the fuck ever said that the vaccine was necessary for the survival of most of the population?

    For most of us this was about contributing to herd immunity for the benefit of those who were at risk of permanent injury or death from covid, and about lowering the personal risk of going through a bad infection yourself.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    No, just a higher percentage of em. Which is exactly what happened.

    On the other hand, I’ve heard a lot of antivaxxers proclaim everyone who got the shot would be dead by last year.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Also, that’s not the fucking point. The vaccination protects everyone, even if you aren’t at a high risk of death from COVID. Every infection is an opportunity for mutation, and every vaccination brings us closer to herd immunity.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        We’re already at a point where almost everyone has either been vaccinated or infected, but neither prevents you from getting sick again or from transmitting covid without realizing you are sick. IIRC the herd immunity stuff people were talking about at the beginning was being hopeful that transmission could be reduced enough to stop the virus from sustaining itself in the population, but it turned out to be too infectious for that to work. Not to say it isn’t worth getting vaccinated to reduce your own chance and severity of illness but at this point will it really be making that much difference in how many people get sick?

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yes, a thousand times yes.

          Pardon me for being uncivil, but your ignorance is violence. People like you are the reason people like me (immunocompromised) have died. Even years after the first infection, in the face of mountains of data and the advice of experts, you’re still sharing moronic, anri-intellectual talking points spread by conservatives to help them stay in power.

          A vaccine does not eliminate your chances of getting sick, it reduces your chances of getting sick. Herd immunity was both achievable and observed in communities that weren’t run by dipshits. You do not remember correctly.

          If everyone had actually gotten vaccinated, it would have saved countless lives and shortened the pandemic. We know this because there are countries that handled the pandemic better than we did, saw fewer deaths, recovered more quickly, and did not experience second- or third-wave variant outbreaks.