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There's a physician doctor, Leana Wen, who is being paraded on national media and she loves to use the term “breakthrough infection.” Her logic is parroted by those in the media and others in the medical field. She specifically says or suggests the unvaccinated affect the vaccinated because non-vaccination:1. increases the risk of breakthrough infections because the unvaccinated are the greatest virus carriers and variant factories and
2. increases the risk of “the economy” being shut down again and returning to mask wearing.
Point #2
The decision to shut down economies is not primarily or secondarily medically based and not based on public safety due to a viral pandemic. The decision to shut down the global economy was and is a means to a much more comprehensive and larger end game goal – that goal is not to protect or save your physical life. If saving your physical life was the priority driver of the decision to shut down the economy, then that would be an anomaly decision that runs counter to many other decisions that continuously endanger your physical life, i.e., USA FDA approved medications and treatments, USDA approved food practices, culture-induced heart diseases and so on.Another way to know this is how things and rules are being applied and handled differently for public schools and those 12 and under.
Another way to know is to look at how the decision was made to open up economies early in the vaccination process and maintain open economies even though only 50% of people in the USA are vaccinated and far fewer are vaccinated worldwide.Point #1
Per CDC paraphrased: infectious diseases result from the interaction of pathogen, host, and environment. More specifically, transmission occurs when the pathogen is transferred to and infects a susceptible host. Susceptibility of a host depends on genetic or constitutional factors, specific immunity, and general factors that affect an individual’s ability to resist infection or to limit a pathogen's progress. An individual’s genetic makeup may either increase or decrease susceptibility. Immunity refers to antibodies that are directed against a specific agent. Such antibodies may develop by exposure to infection, vaccine, or toxoid (toxin that has been deactivated but retains its capacity to stimulate production of toxin antibodies) or may be acquired by transfer from mother to fetus or by injection of antitoxin or immune globulin. Nonspecific factors that defend against infection include gastric acidity and the cough reflex [thus, whatever you cough up, spit it out]. Factors that may increase susceptibility to infection include malnutrition, other diseases or “conditions” a person has or therapy [medications and treatments] that work against the immune system.
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html
Herd Immunity suggests that if a high enough proportion of individuals in a population are immune, then those few who are susceptible will be protected by the resistant majority, since the pathogen will be unlikely to “find” those few susceptible individuals. [thus for you vaccinated people, herd immunity does not provide you with any greater protection, thus getting more people vaccinated will not protect you.]
The degree of herd immunity necessary to prevent or interrupt an outbreak varies by disease. In theory, herd immunity means that not everyone in a community needs to be resistant (immune or vaccinated) to prevent disease spread and occurrence of an outbreak. In practice, herd immunity has not prevented outbreaks of measles and rubella in populations with immunization levels as high as 85% to 90%. One problem is that, in highly immunized populations, the relatively few susceptible persons are often clustered in subgroups defined by socioeconomic or cultural factors. If the pathogen is introduced into one of these subgroups, an outbreak may occur [among and within that subgroup, not in the larger, already immune population].
Per CDC paraphrased:
Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected. COVID-19 vaccines are effective, however, no vaccine is 100% effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people in whom the infection will breakthrough their immune defenses, thus the these individuals will still get sick, or become hospitalized, or die from the pathogen they have been vaccinated against.
Current data suggest that COVID-19 vaccines offer protection against most SARS-CoV-2 variants currently circulating in the United States. However, variants will cause some vaccine breakthrough cases.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html
In other words, quit blaming the unvaccinated for your choices and laziness to not do a little more research to increase understandings, thus reduce unfounded fears.
