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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
and forget this % effectiveness nonsense. All the data is showing that you would be extremely unlikely to get seriously ill from covid and any of its current variants in the UK after that 3 week period. It doesn't get much better than that.
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On a macro scale this is misleading; it does get a LOT better than that. If the vaccines only provide individual protection from severe illness, and do not trigger herd immunity/reduced transmission, then the virus will continue to rapidly mutate until, further down the line, vaccine protection is completely circumvented and we need to redevelop and redeploy all over again.
It's good that it stops severe illness and should offer a lot of peace of mind to vaccinated people in the short term, but longer term, if the vaccines
only stop severe illness it's frankly a disaster.