Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I think that you were overlooking one large statistic. If I cough in the face of an unvaccinated person they are pretty much 100% chance going to become infected. (If you are not vaccinated, then eventually you WILL contract CoViD). But if I cough in the face of a vaccinated person then they only have a 0.1% chance of getting significant symptoms requiring hospitalization. furthermore they only have about a 0.5% chance of even becoming infected at all.
Therefore if we put 400 people in a room (200 unvaxx, and 200 vax) and mingle in some CoViD “spreaders”. All 200 unvaxxed get infected and all 200 become new “spreaders”. And only 1 (that’s one) of the vaxxed people become “spreaders”.
So ‘yes’, technically, if you look at it like Faux Noose does , then both vaxxed AND unvaxxed can “spread” the disease. Or rather, both have the capacity to infect others, would be a better way to phrase it. Because if the disease has an R0 value of 0.05 (1 in 200 downwind get infected), then the virus will die out long before it can become worrisome to the population. (Hint: with an R0 value below 1.0, a disease won’t spread).
In other words, unless you are severely debilitated or otherwise immunosuppressed, then worrying about “breakthrough infections” after vaccination is a propaganda scare, pulled over your eyes to make you think that vaccination will not help stop the virus from spreading.
You’re welcome
100% chance?
We're in contact with viruses all the time. Unvax have more of a chance to get infected but no one is god to know how much the infection will be serious...it depends on
1. Health
2. Age
3. Habits
4. And other risk factors
If you coughed in my face without COVID I won't get sick. But since vax can spread the virus I'd stay 6 feet from you.
Weird example because if you want to prevent harming others coughing in their face isn't the way to do it
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