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In reply to the discussion: This woman is ON FIRE!!! She knows her numbers!! [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,060 posts)to people who are vaccinated who want to toss the mask.
These people are contributing to the current surge because:
(1) they are still vulnerable and are ignoring it,
(2) when they do catch it they discount the symptoms as something else (my employee was sure it was ragweed allergies; one of other exposures from a vaccinated individual thought it was just a cold, and the other thought it was just a headche, and
(3) because they discount the symptoms they continue to participate in society - often unmasked (both of the vaccinated exposures I mentioned in the prior post were individuals who were unmasked; the first a day before the school mask mandate was imposed, the second was unmasked in violation of the mandate because he was vaccinates so he didn't believe he needed to be vaccinated). A vaccinated individual with COVID is every bit as contagious as an unvaccinated individual with COVID for the first 5 days.
It is dangerous to use numbers in a way that encourages vaccinated people to ignore public health concerns in lieu of a bit of freedom, when the vaccination rate is so low, and the prevalence of infection so high.