Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus... "what [the vaccines] can't do anymore is prevent transmission."
Just a few sources. I could post scores like them. Everybody knows this now. It is why there's such a frantic push to re-mask, cook up boosters, do something to compensate for the fact that the vaccines are not working as the get-us-back-to-normal solution we were led to believe they would be.
Please note also the evidence that infectious virus can be found more often in vaccinated (95%) than unvaccinated (over 88%) people. The evidence at this point clearly shows--in the scientific terms vaccine-mandate proponents' claim as their justification--that the vaccinated are at least as infectious, at least as much "plague carriers," as the unvaccinated.
Perhaps one can find different scientific opinions about this. Unlike the medical bureaucracy, I understand there will often be different reasonable, and sometimes conflicting, scientific interpretations of data. But the burden of proof is on those seeking to impose a radical policy of discrimination and social control to justify it with overwhelming scientific evidence that those they will segregate are particularly dangerous "plague carriers." And they do not have it.
Some vaccine-passport proponents will point to evidence viral load clears faster in vaccinated people, though it's the same during the first 6-8 days, the period of maximum contagiousness. That's hardly a sufficient thread on which to hang a radical transformation of society and the blackmailing of millions, including >70% of black Americans, as every one of those proponents would recognize if another team's president were proposing that policy.
Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff agrees, making the further point that vaccine passports are particularly discriminatory to working-class people, who are most likely to already have stronger natural immunity: "Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical." Effectively firing and segregating the race- and class-disadvantaged--that's touted as the socially virtuous policy.
Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical. https://t.co/d14kTPnCWk
Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) August 27, 2021
As an article on Kulldorff notes: "Nor is the study out of Israel a one-off. Media reports show that no fewer than 15 academic studies have found that natural immunity offers immense protection from COVID-19."
Setting aside any of the other real concerns, then, I need not say one more thing to assert that vaccine passports are neither necessary nor effective, and therefore must be opposed--certainly by leftists. The bulk of scientific evidence, including from the sources that vaccine proponents insist we must follow (Fauci, the CDC), states that the unvaccinated are no more infectious and therefore no more a danger to society than the vaccinated. I need say nothing else to ask, with urgency, that vaccine pass-law supporters recognize the conviction they were so certain of is hollow, and either present some other, rock-solid scientific justification for throwing millions of us out of work, school, and exiling us from society, or oppose any such policy.
This alleged justification does not work: "But you're putting those who can't be vaccinated--children, the immunocompromised--at risk." So are you, the vaccinated, at least as much. Follow the science.
And please, if you're tempted to riposte with: "But those who are vaccinated will get less sick and won't die as often!" think again. If that were true, that's a cautionary warning to anyone who is not vaccinated. It is not a justification for throwing the unvaccinated, and not the equally infectious vaccinated, out of work, school, restaurants, grocery stores, and political rallies if they don't comply.
Besides, it's probably not true. As Dr. Charlotte Thà ¥lin of the Karolinska Institute says, "natural immunity is really better than vaccination," and this "has really been shown in the context of COVID-19." Of course, the United States--where the CDC cooks the data to taste1--seems to be exceptional in this as in everything else, but the latest and "some of the absolutely best data coming out anywhere in the world" show that unvaccinated people who've had Covid are "much [up to 27 times] less likely than vaccinated people to get Delta, develop symptoms from it, or become hospitalized with serious COVID-19" [my emphasis].2
So, according to the best data in the world, those people in the hospital beds are at least as likely to have been put there by vaccinated people and at least as likely to be vaccinated people. Note that the percentage of cases among vaccinated is higher than the percentage of vaccinated in population:
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