You forgot to mention that vaccinated people can c

You forgot to mention that vaccinated people can carry a full viral load in the nasal cavity. That is why vaccinated people choose to wear a mask, so as not to infect the unvaccinated. It is good public health practice. I didn’t raise the red state/blue state issue, but since you did I will refer you to Paul Krugman, along with some related statistics.

I don’t want to get into a debate over the merits of vaccinations. I only mentioned it because the most vocal people on this board seem to be anti-vaccine and anti public health.




A new study found that less than 1% of fully vaccinated people have experienced a breakthrough COVID-19 infection.

Less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and experienced a breakthrough case needed to be hospitalized, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease. To sum up, that’s roughly 6,600 severe breakthrough cases among the 163 million fully vaccinated people in the U.S.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/stu...nfections/


...That said, 2021 isn’t 2020 redux. As Aaron Carroll pointed out Tuesday in The Times, Covid is now a crisis for the unvaccinated. Risks for vaccinated Americans aren’t zero, but they’re vastly lower than for those who haven’t gotten a vaccine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/opinion/co...icans.html