Antivax types are all anti pushing vaccine on to people but if they don’t want to get vaccinated then it still won’t affect vaccinated folks. From my rough understanding, getting vaccinated keeps you alive or get less severe symptoms, but you can still pass it on.
So if antivax people don’t get it, then why not just let them die?
Edit: guys, I’m not antivax, I just don’t understand how herd immunity works.
Thanks for indulging my ignorance. However, wouldn’t a 100% fully vaccinated and immunized community still be able to spread?
Say the flu shot, I’d like to say we have high rates of vaccinated people for that, however, if we walk in to a community that doesn’t, won’t it spread to them and kill them?
Edit: I read this article explaining more about the herd immunity you mentioned and it feels a bit missing to me
For example, if this person gets a case of the flu for example, they might still sneeze and cough, which someone will breath in if they’re not wearing protective face coverings, and they will transmit it to more people until it hits a vulnerable person. These people have mild flu symptoms because they’re vaccinated, but it still gets an immunocompromised person in the crossfire.
In the bbc article, it’s as if it stops people from spreading the disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/57229390
It does depend on the disease and the vaccine.
Usually, yes, vaccinated people can still carry and transmit the disease. However, they’re much more likely to have less severe or even no symptoms, and for many diseases they’re also much less likely to transmit than an unvaccinated person.
The real answer to your question is: the more people that are vaccinated, the safer everyone is. It is the height of self-centered self-importance for anti-vaxers to consider their right to avoid minor side effects as more important than the health and safety - potentially even the life - of the immunocompromised people in their community.
I think herd immunity might work in a way by shortening the time each infected person has with infection and reducing the amount if variants, however, we need to combine this with quarantining and protective equipment to make it the most effective