I'm old and fat, and I got vaccinated to reduce my risk of severe infection; but my getting vaxed doesn't make any other old, fat people safer, since the vaccines do not prevent infection (no one ever claimed that they would) and therefore they don't prevent spreading infection. The other old, fat people will have to get vaxed themselve…
I'm old and fat, and I got vaccinated to reduce my risk of severe infection; but my getting vaxed doesn't make any other old, fat people safer, since the vaccines do not prevent infection (no one ever claimed that they would) and therefore they don't prevent spreading infection. The other old, fat people will have to get vaxed themselves if they want the (short term, partial) benefits of the vaccine. Here's a study by two Harvard faculty members that demonstrates that there is no relationship between a nation's vaccination rate and it's infection rate.
I'm old and fat, and I got vaccinated to reduce my risk of severe infection; but my getting vaxed doesn't make any other old, fat people safer, since the vaccines do not prevent infection (no one ever claimed that they would) and therefore they don't prevent spreading infection. The other old, fat people will have to get vaxed themselves if they want the (short term, partial) benefits of the vaccine. Here's a study by two Harvard faculty members that demonstrates that there is no relationship between a nation's vaccination rate and it's infection rate.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7.pdf
There is no scientific basis for the "get vaxed to protect others" position.