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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
You can only GET the virus and spread it to others, if someone else gives it to you. If the majority of people are vaccinated, there's no place for that virus to latch on and infect someone.
That's what herd immunity is all about. It doesn't mean no one gets sick (though that is of course the GOAL). It means the likelihood of the virus latching on and giving someone a week in the hospital is minimized. EVENTUALLY - if it's minimized enough, the virus ceases to exist because it has no host from which to feed.
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Not true. This is a coronavirus and they mutate naturally as we see with the common cold which there isn't a vaccine for. We will never eradicate this from our midst as it's already in animal reservoirs so it will always exist in nature and replicate. It's going to keep mutating despite our best efforts. Perhaps if they develop a sterilizing vaccine someday then it will be different. That will prevent people becoming infected or carrying the virus.