To the "Why are you worried about covid if you're vaccinated" crowd, I'm glad you don't know anyone immunocompromised, or elderly with comorbid conditions, who might be at risk of breakthrough infection despite vaccination, but some of us do know such people.
This is not a dispositive argument in favor of vaccine passports or whatever, but "Stupid covidphobes freaking out" is also not a good argument against those things. There are actual reasons to worry, even if you, personally are relatively young and healthy.
I, for example, have an elderly mom who has COPD, who got vaccinated six months ago, but would probably die from a serious breakthrough infection.
Statistically, the risk may be small, but you see, I don't have enough mothers to form a statistical universe. I only have the one.
Statistically, the risk may be small, but you see, I don't have enough mothers to form a statistical universe. I only have the one.
While I agree that some people are taking the worrying too far--if your parents are 55 and healthy, I wouldn't freak out about their going to a restaurant--some people aren't, and the fact that you are unaware of legit reasons for concern doesn't mean they don't exist.
Note that I did not, in this thread, start arguing for vaccine passports--I simply asked people to stop attacking vaccine passports with the terrible, false argument that anyone who still worries about covid is simply paranoid
Everyone leapt into fighting about vaccines and NPIs
Everyone leapt into fighting about vaccines and NPIs
Because covid has melted too many brains, including the brains of people who spend a lot of time complaining that covid has melted everyone's brain.
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