Um, no. Vaccines don't provide sufficient protection against infection, or transmission, or long COVID (they do protect, but far for complete protection) - all these impact children- educational disruption, long COVID, in children and parents & risk to carers. Every layer matters
https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1482361460990881796
It's literally basic real-world observation to see the multiple superspreading events of omicron observed exactly in this situation - among vaccinated people who thought they were safe, even among people who were LFD tested... Vaccines do not replace other mitigations.
They add to them. Tbh, I'd much rather sit in a room with a person wearing an FFP2 well, than a vaccinated person with respect to infection, as protection is much higher. Of course, the best is both + ventilation + testing . Why would you ever present it as one or the other?
And you may not be aware but clinically vulnerable people exist, and form a large part of every country. Ideas like this marginalise CV people even more - their protections even with vaccines are likely to be much lower. You can't protect CV children unless you minimise risk.
I'm currently remote schooling my daughter for the second time in weeks because both she and I are CV, and would be high risk if we were to be infected, and there've been several outbreaks in school. Our lives would be so much safer, and fuller if everyone wore masks.
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