Vax not Vax

Context:

1) I'm not a scientist.

2) I'm not vaccinated.

3) I'm college educated and work at a big 4 accounting firm since 2011.

Position:

People who have received a COVID-19 shot but are not sick with COVID-19 are not safer to be around than people who have received a COVID-19 shot and are also not sick. Conversely, people from either group - if sick with COVID-19 - are both likely to spread the virus.

Support:

1) Highest level analysis of the first element of my position: non-sick people are equally safe to be around. If neither is actively ill, the risk of spread resides in if by chance that person is carrying the virus somewhere on their body or clothes externally. In either case, both are nominally equal in risk.

2) Like a flu shot - the COVID-19 shot is designed for specific strains and in order to remain effective, will require some level of recurring administration or it's effectiveness will wane. This is because the shot is not a vaccine in the same manner that measles shots, hep shots, chickenpox shots, etc...are vaccines.

3) If it were true that the COVID-19 shot was anything more than a different type of flu shot, then we would not see surge after surge of contagion in areas that had very high levels of shot participation. Cases in point can be seen in US states with higher levels of shot participation and countries like Iceland or Israel where participation levels are very high, yet are still seeing surges similar to other areas with lower levels if participation. People can debate the nuance of this fact, but as a general high level observation - it remains true

Application:

1) Let people choose what they want to do, penalize nobody

2) For populations that have higher vulnerability for death or hospitalization - prioritize access to preventative treatment and post exposure applications.

3) If you truly want a solution to reduce the spread, everyone then I suggest everyone in the world stays home for six weeks AND I suggest that countries reevaluate how much health and wellness infrastructure they invest in.

The ability to respond to a crisis like this demands better preparation and capacity to treat. That's a better strategy than rationing care and demonizing alternative opinions while taking away people's right to govern which substances they subject their bodies to receive. Since the awareness of COVID-19 - has there been any large push to increase permanent capacity and infrastructure in our health care systems at an Enterprise/national/global scale? No. There's no reason to expect different outcomes if you are always attacking the symptoms. Because COVID-19 is viral, it's not going away no matter how many shots we administer. Why not learn from this impact and update the calculus of our abity to treat people at quantity. The current calculations are woefully amateur and are no longer relevant.

Peace be with you.