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Originally Posted by nick_d_240sx
2 covid vaccines, 2 boosters and it still doesn't stop infection or transmission.
Please tell us more about the smallpox, polio and diphtheria vaccines that actually work.
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The COVID vaccine may not stop infection or transmission, but it does reduce severity (both short-term and long-term) in those who are vaccinated as well as decreases the odds of infection. We don't hear about the people who were vaccinated, exposed, and who weren't infected.
The smallpox vaccine is about 95% effective in preventing infection but is also effective at reducing severity in those recently exposed. Most of us don't need the vaccine because the spread was reduced to the point that smallpox was all but stopped due to the vaccine's effectiveness in preventing infection.
Two polio vaccination doses are about 90% effective. Three are 99-100% effective.
Three diphtheria vaccine doses are 97% effective.
We can acknowledge that scientific precedent has been established and even so, is not infallible, or we can continue to rail against a vaccine that, to an outsider, appears to have reduced the transmission rate to one our society can at least function with.
We also can acknowledge that a single preventable death is a tragedy without that label being an overreaction. My family member who died wasn't anti-science, but he was incredibly political and the choice not to be vaccinated was a political choice and not one based on logic.