by Jimmy Dore's, Caitlin Jonestone', Max Blumenthal, and others, arguments against mandates is that vaccines don't slow transmission of Covid, so why force a 'medical procedure' on someone. They say people have rights, my body, my choice. A number of points: Scan the Internet and you will see that vaccines do slow transmission of the virus. No one is forcing any vaccines on anyone, and if people don't want to get a vaccine they can find another job. The people who say that mandates are authoritarian, fail to consider that the rest of us have rights too, and that we don't want the unvaccinated near our children, our old folk, the vulnerable, or even ourselves at this present time. This is a fair right, especially when we believe that the unvaccinated can spread Covid. So, those that refuse to
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Jimmy Dore's, Caitlin Jonestone', Max Blumenthal, and others, arguments against mandates is that vaccines don't slow transmission of Covid, so why force a 'medical procedure' on someone. They say people have rights, my body, my choice.
A number of points:
Scan the Internet and you will see that vaccines do slow transmission of the virus.
No one is forcing any vaccines on anyone, and if people don't want to get a vaccine they can find another job.
The people who say that mandates are authoritarian, fail to consider that the rest of us have rights too, and that we don't want the unvaccinated near our children, our old folk, the vulnerable, or even ourselves at this present time. This is a fair right, especially when we believe that the unvaccinated can spread Covid.
So, those that refuse to get a vaccine get it wrong on all counts and fail to understand that other people with different POV have rights too.
What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place.
De Gier and her team used data from the Netherlands’ contact tracing system to work out the so-called secondary attack rate – the proportion of contacts infected by positive cases. They then worked out how much this was reduced by vaccination, adjusting for factors such as age.
De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall.
Others have worked out the full effect. Earlier this year, Ottavia Prunas at Yale University applied two different models to data from Israel, where the Pfizer vaccine was used. Her team’s conclusion was that the overall vaccine effectiveness against transmission was 89 per cent.