Quote (ofthevoid @ Dec 9 2020 08:29pm)
There is a high probability that the high-risk people will get vaccinated within the next few months so how would there be spread from the low risk to high risk if they're vaccinated?
Not all high risk people can be vaccinated. Those who are immunocompromised can't be.
Not all high risk people who are vaccinated will become immune.
We don't know how long vaccine immunity lasts or infection immunity lasts, so there's a possibility that as the immunity wanes in the future you see continual reinfections and you have a lot more time to find this out and give boosters if the community spread is lower.
Flooding the medical system will still happen even if the high risk people are vaccinated because the low risk people outnumber the high risk people, and that puts everybody at risk. You're far more likely to die from a random accident if the ICU and ER is totally full.
If we don't achieve herd immunity then the disease still propagates through the community and that makes it likely there will be a mutation event which resets everybody's immunity and we end up back at square 1.
There's a butt ton of reasons why everybody should be. We've seen this problem before with dozens of diseases. Listen to experts! They're the people who actually spend their lives studying this shit!
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Dec 9 2020 11:55pm