Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered?

jahsoul357 said
Time will tell. Being vaccinated doesn't stop one from being a source of transmission and if they really cared about the spread, there would be equal restrictions. So if it isn't about the spread, who are we really protecting? Question is wonder about, if an unvaccinated person spreads COVID to someone that is vaccinated and they get sick, do we look at the person who spread the COVID or the one that wholly trusted the vaccine?

Well, at the hospital where my wife works, the ICU is filled beyond capacity with COVID patients on ventilators. ALL unvaccinated. They also get patients who come in for other conditions, who are in bad health, who are fully vaccinated, who also test positive for COVID. Yet, they aren't in the ICU, and aren't on ventilators.

So from what I can tell, you're right in that being vaccinated doesn't prevent you from getting COVID or transmitting it. But it does seem to prevent severe illness (i.e., needing to be in ICU on a ventilator) and death. At this point, trying to stop the spread is kind of pointless. Now it's about making COVID something manageable, which the vaccines can do if only people will take them. But for whatever reasons, some people think it's smarter to avoid the vaccine until they eventually get COVID (which they sooner or later will) with no protection whatsoever.

So with that said, I'm as sick of "mandates" and masks as everyone else, but I firmly believe that once all children (or at least the ones with parents who will let them) get their shots, it's time to move on, and let the unvaccinated take their chances. Everyone's had more than reasonable opportunity to get vaccinated, so if you're one of them and get severely sick, don't blame those who are vaccinated. Blame yourself for your own stupid choices. The rest of us deserve to move on.