Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 28 Sep 2021 20:15)
In order for her comparison to work you have to actively ignore the thing that makes Covid dangerous, that it is contagious.
Analogies stop being valid when the important parts are absent. When you intentionally leave out the single most important factor for a disease being dangerous, your analogy becomes worthless.
That's missing the point. When there is a vaccine which brings down the individual risk of hospitalization or death to a sufficiently[1] low level, then covid being contagious is no longer a valid argument since everyone has the tools to protect himself.
The dampening effect of the vaccines on the spread of covid relies on as many people as possible being vaccinated. By contrast, the self-protection aspect of the vaccines does
not rely on others being vaccinated. (And the stopping-the-spread aspect is out of the window anyway since the arrival of Delta.)
Hence, the pervasive reasoning that "everyone needs to be vaccinated for my vaccination to protect me" is either plain wrong, or it is implying that the vaccines' protection against hospitalization and death is lower than advertised.
[1]that is, a risk level which society has - when it comes to a wide array of other, older contagious diseases - accepted as not worthy of implementing mitigating measures or being treated as a collective (as opposed to an individual) health risk
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 29 2021 05:47pm