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Originally Posted by Malsua
I believe the reason they are saying this is that they aren't sure how well circulating anti-bodies will prevent areas of the nasopharynx(the back of your nose) from becoming infected and start shedding virus before the immune system shuts it down. It is understandable to use the precautionary principle in the face of unknowns.
The problem I have with this is that anyone who has a raging virus infection in their nose is, by all definitions, going to be symptomatic. It takes a raging infection to generate enough shedding to infect others.
A study out of China recently with over 5000 participants found that 126 truly asymptomatic people spread it to exactly zero others. These people were not vaccinated but infected.
Everyone who is symptomatic should be quarantined or under multiple layers of PPE. A mouth gator is not enough.
If you are not showing symptoms and you're a month out from your second shot, your chance of infecting anyone else is so close to zero as to be indistinguishable from zero.
Again, understand that the only way you infect others is if your body is making trillions of virus particles and spreading them all over the place. Your body makes these from infected cells. If you have the vaccine, you can't make the virus. Not making it? Not infecting anyone.
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I'm glad you mentioned that. Early on in this pandemic, I saw on a news show that neck gators are not recommended to slow the spread of the virus. In fact, neck gators are worse for mitigation because the neck gator actually make droplets into the smaller aerosols. Even a double layer gator is not recommended to mitigate the virus.