“If you’re vaccinated, and the vaccines work, why do you care if I get vaccinated? Let me live my life. My body, my choice.” This sentiment echoes a popular refrain of those who are anti-vax or otherwise not getting the Covid vaccine.
1/ You are allowing the virus to mutate, new variants to develop, and the virus to continue living on. That’s how viruses work. In fact, infectious disease doctors are calling the unvaccinated “variant factories.” The greater number of unvaccinated there are, the greater the opportunities for the virus to mutate and multiply. The only way to stop the virus from replicating into more virulent and dangerous variants is to have a sufficient percentage of the population vaccinated. At our current 48 percent nationwide full-vaccination rate, we are a long way off from this happening. Thus, your failure to get vaccinated is allowing the virus to use your immune system as a breeding ground for Covid to replicate into new variants. Eventually, those variants will evade my immunity.
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