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Old 04-26-2021, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
I’m confused, if you have received the vaccine, how am I putting your life at risk? If two non vaccinated people are in the same location, they potentially only put each other at risk, not you.

If an private business wants to make being vaccinated mandatory that’s their choice. I do have an issue with individual people calling for vaccine passports to punish those who feel the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits...
If you are otherwise immunized (by way of having caught COVID-19 and already possessed of the antibodies against it), then you will pose no risk to me or anyone else at all, is how I'm understanding it.

However...

Most people have not been otherwise immunized. Most people in this country have not caught COVID-19 and had the opportunity to develop an immunity to it.

Virii mutate. That is a fact. They do this, it's a thing that they do. UNLESS they are not provided with a host in which they can acquire the materials necessary for the mutation.

If most people refuse to vaccinate AND those same people are not already immune, then the virus has lots and lots of hosts to pick from, to settle down and munch on those tasty mutation-creating kibbles and bits of humanity.

Once the virus mutates sufficiently, it can then go on and infect EVERYONE. Even the people who were already vaccinated.

That is why I feel people should be vaccinated, if they are able to do so. Because I really REALLY don't want to have to go through this again.