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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

being vaccinated doesn't stop a person catching covid or spreading it, so what exactly is the problem with remaining unvaccinated if that is your choice?


The media as usual have a lot to answer for, stirring up fear of the "unclean" when you can just as easy get covid from a vaccinated person

Also, this drive to get the world vaccinated is complete bollox too. The reason given is to stop new variants mutating, but the simple fact is, we can't ever stop it mutating, and the more it mutates, the more likely it will become a harmless virus.

We are being fed lies and fear, and the majority are just swallowing it hook line and sinker.

Vaccination is a personal choice

We still have the issue of the drain on healthcare resources, for example, you need ventilators to carry out ANY procedure under general anaesthetic, from an emergency surgery after a car accident to a schedules hip replacement and having them taken up by Covid cases in ICU continues to create an absolutely insane backlog. That part is not scaremongering - it's at catastrophic levels at this point. What's the solution? To say "OK don't get a vaccine but that means you don't get a ventilator if you get severely ill"? (Thankfully) the healthcare service doesn't work like that either and people have a right to treatment even if it's caused by their own bad decisions.

Vaccination also does dramatically reduce the likelihood of catching and spreading Covid - I don't know where the myth that it makes no difference comes from. You still CAN catch and CAN spread Covid whilst vaccinated, but it's less likely (that you will catch it, and also milder cases spread less easily).

However on that front - like I said 95% uptake should be more than enough, 100% uptake is a very unrealistic target for any vaccine, e.g. measles was all but eradicated (from being extremely common) with far less than 95% vaccine uptake. And measles is extremely contagious.