07-22-2021, 02:32 PM
(07-22-2021, 02:06 PM)ac3r Wrote: Well, vaccines increase your ability to both fight the virus and survive the disease this virus causes. This also means, because the immune system has an idea how to fight the virus, that a vaccinated person with the virus will likely have have less viral load within their body, which means even if infected they have less chance of spreading it (which is important for a infected person who is vaccinated, as they'd be more likely to be asymptomatic and not even know they have it). The question then becomes: would a vaccinated individual want to spend any amount of time near someone who is unvaccinated, who therefore has a greater chance at having the virus and who would shed more of it? I would think any sensible individual would say hell no. It's a matter of judging risk.
This is it, in short. Vaccination reduces the risk of disease -- and also the risk of spreading the virus. Even without having numerical data on this, I am confident that being with vaccinated people is safer than with unvaccinated people.