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In reply to the discussion: This woman is ON FIRE!!! She knows her numbers!! [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)I said absolutely nothing about not getting vaccinated. In fact, I explicitly stated I was vaccinated as soon as my group was eligible, and that I will get a booster as soon as they are recommended.
My concern is that people who ARE vaccinated - who come down with COVID believe that what they have MUST be only a cold, or must be only allergies, because they are being told that their chance of being a breakthrough case is .0003%. Relying on that misperception that breakthrough cases are rare, they go to work, they go out shopping, or they go to concerts with a "harmless cold or allergies" and give COVID to just as many others as if they had never been vaccinated at all - because for the first 5 days they are every bit as contagious as someone with COVID who was not vaccinated.
I am concerned that the gross mischaracterization of the data is encouraging (or being used to justify) behavior by vaccinated individuals that contributes to maintaining the surge, to causing variants, and to spreading COVID to un-vaccinated children.
There are people on DU who have expressly said, "the risk is only .0003% - I'll take my chances without a mask" - ignoring the risk they pose to others.
3 of my last 4 exposures (in less than a month) were from vaccinated individuals who had a "cold" or "allergies," which turned out to be a breakthrough case.
First - I'm talking about exposures that the CDC counts - and which my tank my 9-month sarcoma follow-up scans - and second - that's more exposures in a month than I had during the entire March 2020 - August 14 , 20221 period.
Breakthrough cases are not rare, despite all attempts to paint them as such. We're just playing the Donald Trump game - if we don't count them they don't exist.