Fully vaccinated people can still contract COVID because immunization doesn't last forever, the three vaccines are different (especially the one-shot-J&J one vs. the the two mRNA ones) and not all people have full immunity (like my friend who survived cancer).
Someone I know got vaccinated in December. He's "fully vaccinated" but does he have the immunity that someone who became fully vaccinated a few weeks ago does? Not sure. That's why there are clinical trials going on as we speak both to see how long the initial immunity lasts (vs. variants) and whether boosters will likely be needed.
Many of the breakthroughs I've heard (including a group of Dodgers) had taken the J&J vaccine. Much milder symptoms for most than full blown COVID but still cases.
The fact remains that our country is awash in COVID and vaccine misinformation and that about half of the country isn't fully vaccinated. Sadly. Our lives, economy, etc. won't be relatively back to normal unless we reach 80+% vaccination. Even if people think that they're stronger than the virus or act like it doesn't exist.
Someone I know got vaccinated in December. He's "fully vaccinated" but does he have the immunity that someone who became fully vaccinated a few weeks ago does? Not sure. That's why there are clinical trials going on as we speak both to see how long the initial immunity lasts (vs. variants) and whether boosters will likely be needed.
Many of the breakthroughs I've heard (including a group of Dodgers) had taken the J&J vaccine. Much milder symptoms for most than full blown COVID but still cases.
The fact remains that our country is awash in COVID and vaccine misinformation and that about half of the country isn't fully vaccinated. Sadly. Our lives, economy, etc. won't be relatively back to normal unless we reach 80+% vaccination. Even if people think that they're stronger than the virus or act like it doesn't exist.
All of life is an experiment. The only thing certain is the final outcome.
I work as an electrician; everything I do at work is based upon electrical theory. Operative word: theory. None of it has been or can be proven; no one has ever seen an electron, nobody can conclusively prove that they even exist. Endless experiments and observations have led us to construct theories which are usepredict what the outcome of various actions will be...but we can't actually be certain of any of it.
Your doctor deals with the practice of medicine. He may be very skilled but he doesn't actually know what he is doing; he is just practicing.
I just read that story linked a couple of posts up, regarding fully-vaccinated Louisiana residents dying "from Covid". Like most journalism, this amounts to one guy telling us all what he claims he thinks another guy said. In this case, it is stated once that these people died "of Covid", but it is stated twice that they died "with Covid". Hmmm...I wonder how many of them died while driving their cars? They finally snap while listening to yet another Covid story on the radio, begin frenziedly pummeling the radio in the dashboard, don't watch the road and plow into the back of a garbage truck. Would that be listed as a death due to Covid? Or perhaps Covid complications? I'd even bet that the death of the garbage truck driver...oops, sorry, "sanitation engineer"...would also be attributed to Covid.
We need a zombie apocalypse sooner rather than later...
Believe what or who you want regarding Covid. Your beliefs, convictions and biases are irrelevant, except to you. Now, before poor fishhead0103666 looks at the monster he birthed when creating this thread and has a stroke...maybe we should move on to something less incendiary like...oh, I dunno...aquarium fish?