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Originally Posted by coffeebean
Twice on TV I have seen the video of Dr. Fauci with his message about being vaccinated. In the video, Dr. Fauci is encouraging people to be vaccinated and what he says is confusing to me. He said "being vaccinated will not only protect you but it will protect your family and also protect your community".
My confusion lies with the fact that we are being informed to continue to wear masks and social distance even after we have received full immunization and achieve immunity. This is because it is not known yet if an immunized person can still transmit the virus.
I'm not sure what to make of this as they are opposing views.
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You state "we are being informed to continue to wear masks" by who? Every “Tom, Dick, & Harry” has an opinion. Many of these people do NOT understand the scientific facts regarding vaccinations and have thrown rational thinking out the window!
Vaccines train our immune systems to create proteins that fight disease, known as ‘antibodies’,
just as would happen when we are exposed to a disease. Even people without symptoms develop an immune response. - WHO (World Health Organization)
A person who is now immune cannot get or give the disease. The COVID virus is NOT one of those diseases in which an immune person can be a carrier.
Myself, my family, my neighbors, and millions of others have already had COVID and are naturally immune.
We do not need to wear a mask.
I have stated this fact before but there is always someone who points out that we may not be immune against the new variants of COVID.
On January 25, 2021, Moderna published a press release announcing that their vaccine is effective against the B.1.1.7 variant. Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech both said their vaccines were effective against new variants of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and South Africa.
There will always be those whose irrational fears due to the media's bombardment of the worst case scenarios have eclipsed common sense.
Johns Hopkins University of Medicine's COVID Research Center states the percentage of deaths in the U.S. due to COVID is 1.7%. Yes, you can find other studies with higher death rate percentages but they are all still quite low.
I am not going to wear a mask forever in fear of the ever mutating variants of viruses. Enough is enough!
- David H. Dallas, RN-ASN, EMT-P, retired