Not the immunocompromised or those who are legitimately unable to get vaccinated? Not a very nuanced take.
Come on. Getting vaccinated has more than enough utility for you and for others to make it a good choice on either principle alone.
Wearing a helmet while driving a car, however, has a pretty good chance of reduxing injuries and fatalities (probably even better than wearing a helmet when riding a bike on a seperated bike path.)
I don't think this is really a question of people analyzing the trade-offs. This how to do with how the risks and the activity are percieved, people are generally really at accurately assessing such risks.
Brushing your teeth doesnt guarantee you will have no cavities.
Radiation doesnt guarantee you will be cancer free.
At no point did the vaccine promise full immunity.
At some point life returns to normal.
But in my callousness I would simply illegalize treating people that are anti-vaccine.
What about not treating lung cancer in smokers? Or diabetes in morbidly obese?
The immunocompromised will have accelerated shots etc.
More generally, we can't solve for the 0.5%, we have to solve for the 98%.
Either way, you're still less of a risk to your own health and the health of other people if you get vaccinated.
You seem to be trying to make a black & white argument: The vaccine isn't 100% effective, and therefore isn't necessary/people shouldn't feel obligated/it doesn't reduce risk/or something like that. But it doesn't have to be perfect in order for it to be much much much much much much much much much much better than nothing
Both potential short and long-term side effects of the vaccines put aside for a moment and how important things like fertility and reproduction cannot have been adequately tested yet, I think the comment about risking others' health is completely backwards once you think through the logic of it. If my reasoning is in any way illogical, please clarify for me how you think it is wrong.
If the vaccines are reducing symptoms to the point that the vaccinated might not quickly realize that they're Covid carriers and are still going about their days, wouldn't they be more likely to encounter and put at risk more people than the unvaccinated who know that they're sick and far more likely to stay at home and isolate?