I was responding to the summary of CWs post.
Saying basically that the unvaccinated are killing others.
my point being- in that scenario nobody died( and hopefully won’t), and it seems hard for someone to come to that conclusion when there is no way to know that. Seems like hype- kind of like a lot of what the media is doing. ( all sides)
Fair enough... His final statement was that the refuseniks are killing others, not just themselves. And I see your point that even those who are vaccinated might be killing others.
I suppose I'm somewhere in the middle. Being vaccinated, I don't want to wear a mask any more. I don't wear it unless I'm in places where it's required (either due to regulation, such as when I traveled or was in a healthcare setting, or due to a business' voluntary policies).
If I wore a mask, I might protect someone who is vulnerable if I have an asymptomatic breakthrough infection and I'm exposing others. And that vulnerable person may be vaccinated, or may be unable [rather than unwilling] to be vaccinated for a legitimate medical reason or (in the example CW gave) due to being too young to be eligible.
That said, the relative risk of me doing so and hurting someone is
MUCH lower than that of a refusenik. And the relative risk of me being exposed to the virus and potentially getting a breakthrough infection would be
MUCH lower if the refuseniks actually got the shot too.
Those who refuse the vaccine are IMHO a huge reason why we're in a Delta spike. Not lack of masks, not lack of social distancing, not anything else. The refuseniks.
