It’s absolutely true that you can catch it with the vaccine. No one argues that. What people argue is that it’s much less likely, and your symptoms will be much less severe thanks to an advanced immune response. My wife and I are vaccinated, we got it as soon as we could as we were going to Mexico on our honeymoon in April and didn’t want to be stranded. We had some friends over two fridays ago for dinner and the opening ceremony of the olympics. 6/9 were unvaccinated. My wife, myself, and one other. 5/6 of the unvaccinated came down with COVID 4 days later. 0/3 vaccinated people came down with COVID. That’s an experience I saw with my own eyes. I was very thankful to have the vaccine when the texts started coming in from friends having it.
I have a coworker who didn’t want the vaccine. She got Covid last Monday. She was taken to the hospital yesterday by EMS with oxygen at 82. She has been admitted with pneumonia caused by Covid and is in her mid-40s.
This certainly isn’t just directed at you because you’re seeing the effects of Covid with a family member up close as well. This is to the other people in this thread asking why we care what they do with their bodies.
Most of us normal folks who support the vaccine support not seeing their friends and family sick as dogs and in the hospital. We aren’t sheep, we aren’t getting the shot to support Uncle Joe, or feel like we need to give up freedom or that it’s a political statement. We’re people that want to go to Clemson games and tailgate this fall without having to move a mask every time we wanna work on deleting a beer, or swelter in it in September in a 1/3 full stadium because people “aren’t gonna give up their freedom and be sheep” and the virus is still running absolutely rampant. I wanna go to concerts, go to Lowe’s and not get to the door and walk back to get my mask out of the truck. I don’t wanna go to family members or friends funerals. If it was a vacuum and anti-Vaxxers choices didn’t affect me, I wouldn’t give a flying shit what they did. But it does. I like to go to 200 person wedding receptions maskless, full stadium braves games, not see my wife miserable after another 12 hour shift of caring for Covid patients at the hospital. I don’t want to see my brother and his wife have birth complications having their first daughter in 2 weeks. I’d love to go see my niece and another nephew born two days ago in the hospital rather than just pictures. I don’t want what happened just to Chris Justus’ brother whose wife died 30 something weeks pregnant leaving 2 children and an emergency C-section delivered newborn behind with just their father. So yeah, I don’t really care what people do to themselves, but I’m selfish, and I care what people do to me and my loved ones.
And again I wanna reiterate that while I began this replying to you, this rant at the end is not directed to you.
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