AntiVAXers are a very compromised lot. Take the recent NSW night club/pub infections. AntiVAXers claim the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are ineffective and don’t work. So does this mean that antiVAXers believe there would be no infections, less infections or more infections if everyone was unvaccinated in these situations? Their position is ludicrous, even dangerously silly. Taken to its logical conclusion there would be no night clubs or pubs open for years to come.
A social lockout by antiVAXers - what a wonder!
Some protection is always better than none. Only antiVAXers claim SARS-CoV-2 vaccines should be100% neutralising.
I will repeat what I wrote in a previous post: ‘There has never been a vaccine produced or designed to prevent 100% infection.’ Not one!
So antiVAXers, as they typically do, make scientific objections which are never within the immunological orbit of the vaccine makers.
The real question worth exploring is how many fully vaccinated people, from the night club/pubs cluster, actually end up in hospital and what number become deceased as a consequence?
No medical authority or vaccine maker has ever claimed that vaccination will provide a bullet proof safety shield against breakthrough. But the majority of the fully vaccinated population are many times less likely to suffer hospitalisation or death.
AntiVAXer might educate themselves a little if they looked at the dates and epidemiology of the variants. Instead of revealing how ignorant they are of virological mutation. Most variants (mutations) occurred before the introduction of vaccines.
‘there is no reason for the virus to mutate in the unvaxed,’ is an anthropomorphic sweetie. It gives consciousness to an infectious particle that always needs to constantly replicate to survive.
As Professor of Immunology and Associate Provost, Research Partnerships, Victoria University, Vasso Apostolopoulos and Research Officer - Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University, Jack Feehan note in their (18Nov 2021) ‘The Conversation’ article:
While it’s difficult to estimate the rate of breakthrough infections accurately, studies have estimated they occur in 0.2% to 4% of people. In reality, this means that for every 100 vaccinated people, somewhere between 0.2 and 4 of them would get COVID.
So, while in the rare instance where a breakthrough infection occurs, there may be a similar viral load, and possibly a similar infectiousness, there remain much fewer vaccinated people getting COVID. ‘
