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Originally Posted by coffeebean
I do not agree at all with your paraphrased statement. As I said earlier, I will be assuming some risk by being vaccinated. There are benefits to taking that risk and that is the ability to go back to a normal life. I will be helping this country reach a safe herd immunity. What about this do you not understand?
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You are assuming that after you are vaccinated you are not going to get Covid and therefore you cannot spread it to others. Wearing a mask as you are well aware is to protect others from your potentially infectious material. If getting the vaccine 100% meant you could not have Covid in your breath droplets then your position of not needing a mask would be justified. However the best vaccine is 95% effective against clinical disease and of unknown but certainly below 100% against sub-clinical disease. So you have a 5% risk of not being protected from Covid even after you complete your shots and additional risk of spreading Covid if you are sub-clinically infected.
That is why people are writing that it is better to continue to wear your mask even after you get your shots until we reach the point when Covid is not widely circulating.