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  • HMHOP
    3•2 years ago

    While I think a lot of you guys here will probably agree with this decision, I think it is really stupid.

    Sadly the vaccination doesn’t protect the majority of people (ages 18-59) from infections at all anymore. This can be seen in the following diagram from the Robert Koch Institute (the German CDC), which shows infections among unvaccinated, vaccinated and boosted people per 100,000. incidence among vaccinated and unvaccinated (Source)

    All the vaccination can do, albeit to a limited degree, is prevent a severe disease and death. This means if you actually wanted to protect vulnerable people you wouldn’t push vaccination just because but instead make tests (and masks) mandatory for health care workers around those groups.