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Yes, a thousand times yes.
Pardon me for being uncivil, but your ignorance is violence. People like you are the reason people like me (immunocompromised) have died. Even years after the first infection, in the face of mountains of data and the advice of experts, you're still sharing moronic, anri-intellectual talking points spread by conservatives to help them stay in power.
A vaccine does not eliminate your chances of getting sick, it reduces your chances of getting sick. Herd immunity was both achievable and observed in communities that weren't run by dipshits. You do not remember correctly.
If everyone had actually gotten vaccinated, it would have saved countless lives and shortened the pandemic. We know this because there are countries that handled the pandemic better than we did, saw fewer deaths, recovered more quickly, and did not experience second- or third-wave variant outbreaks.
I think you're making a lot of uncharitable assumptions about what I'm saying, which definitely isn't that it would have been useless to get everyone vaccinated sooner. Taking all available precautions to reduce transmission is of course what should have been done.
I remember people talking about herd immunity as an argument that we should avoid any lockdowns so everyone gets infected and get it over with sooner, because they will then have enough resistance to end the disease in the population. What I mean by 'it turned out to be too infectious' is that the pandemic now continues despite most people having gotten sick, not that efforts to reduce transmission did nothing to help save people.
The main point I'm wondering about here is more about the current role of vaccines, now that almost everyone has an immune system that is familiar with covid. I'm not even asking about this rhetorically, just skeptical that the same logic still applies that did earlier.
We aren't going for full herd immunity any more since that horse has bolted, but there's really no scientific doubt that continued vaccination is reducing the spread and the severity of infections. It's not difficult to find the many studies that have been published on this.
No. That's just unscientific bullshit. Remember the vaccine never stopped the spread.
Your ignorance is a disease and the world is worse off when you speak.
It didn't stop the spread but there have been several studies showing that it reduces spread. This logic of "if the vaccine doesn't 100% eliminate the disease it isn't worth anything" is characteristic of antivax thinking, but the vaccines have been proven to reduce infection rates, disease severity and the risk of long COVID, and cumulatively this improves outcomes for many people around the world.