Must admit i never have understood the extreme views of some on this topic, not sure if this thread or not but someone was comparing unvacinated to drink drivers, wot a lot of tosh.
As whitebeard says above, theyre was a spokesperson on radio the other day saying a new study has shown that in an infected person the ammount of virus in there nose and throat is the same wether vaccinated or unvaccintated, so both have just as much chance of passing the virus on.
They then completely glossed over that fact and went on to say how great the vaccines are.
So an unvaccintaed person is no more risk than anyone else.
If u add in how they're living there life, pubs, weddings, parties, foreign hols etc as their 'double jabbed' and 'safe' is far more risk to others than an unvaccinated livng a quiet life keeping a social distance
Now pretty much proven facts are the vaccine makes any symptoms weaker (which is a good thing)
But surely with a virus where half the problem with it spreading in very high % of population (esp younger age groups) will be completely asymptomatic, so surely the vaccination is only going to increase the % of asymptomatic 'spreaders'.
I'd say a vaccinated person is actually potentially more likely to spread the virus as less likely to have any obvious symptoms, know been a couple of weddings locally and its spread massively in a short space of time, every man and there dog seems to have it now and many will be vaccinated
I've chose not to have the vaccine despite me having asthma, is not so bad now but used to be severe, so i really dont want to be catching the virus so keeping my distance from folk.
I have a physical job and with my asthma and gettin on a bit now, i would guess the chances of my catching it and being asyptomatic will be smallish so also very unlikely to pass it on to anyone either.
My decision i've made knowing im not endangering anyone else.
Must admit some of the reasons for not taking it are just bonkers, im not a conspiracy theorist at all, simply i had a truely terrible reaction to a flu jab years ago and never had 1 since, for an illness with a 99.98% survival rate and where the average age of those dying is above the average life expectancy.
I take bigger risks at work everyday
Its only a matter of time until a more resitant strain comes alone that the vaccines not effective for, as with the delta variant, more folk catching it than the original.
And as people begin to travel en masse just for holidays mixing with big numbers of others from different areas any new variant wont be long in spreading.
Then wot happens?? Do we all go back into hiding again?? Sadly the answer will most likely be YES
A few folk have mentioned foriegn holidays but mibbee the way many of us lived before wasnt really sustainable anyway even before covid (cheap airline flights for 10 or 20 quid all over europe), and now in covid (and global warming times) jetting all over europe just for a long wknd mibbee isnt a good idea.
Lets face it foreign holidays are a fairly new thing for most of the population, 20 or 30 years ago only really becoming common
Im not that old but mind as a kid our summer holiday we used to go to a campsite in a borrowed caravan 20 miles from home, my cousins used to come too and only 6 miles from home, had some great times.
U dont need to go foreign holidays to have a good time and a break from work.
A nice hol every year or 2 yes but now some folk are having multiple foreign hols a year