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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Sorry, you’re the one who brought cold & flu into this in the first place.
Whilst the vaccines work you’re missing a key point, protection degrades over time. Have a look at the latest figures coming out of Israel over five times the cases in those double jabbed vs those with a third booster jab (the majority still being unvaccinated of course)
To those that having difficulties reconnecting from behind a mask, I’d suggest they would have greater difficulties reconnecting whilst either on a ventilator or, worse, dead.
Wearing a mask is about as difficult as wearing a seatbelt, or a crash helmet.
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It patently isn’t. A seatbelt restricts social contact in a car no more than being in the car does. A crash helmet is worn in situations where no social contact is occurring at all. A mask over half the face and muffling conversation in situations where such things are important is obviously very different.
Your point about ventilators and death is precisely the hysteria we need to be avoiding. Yes, protection wanes, as it does for all vaccines against these sorts of infections. There is a role in this for booster vaccination but also for repeated natural exposure to the virus in the wild. In the meantime, the fear of something awful happening carries a bigger health risk for some than the thing itself.
I fear that as a nation we are losing our sense of proportion and our ability to assess risk.