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I was militant pro-mask when I was unvaccinated. Now that I'm vaccinated and have no comorbidities, I'm OK with being exposed to COVID-19. In fact, I want to have a mild case of COVID-19 to get natural immunity. Natural immunity seems to be more effective than the vaccine for long lasting immunity.

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IIRC the CDC says there is evidence that vaccinated individuals can spread the delta variant. So it's important for everyone to continue to wear masks, even those vaccinated. It helps keep those who can't get vaccinated safe, and it helps reduce load on the hospitals so people can get timely treatment for other concerns. Additionally, breakthrough cases are a breeding ground for further evolution of the virus.

I’m not quite at that point of “fuck it, I’m vaccinated, come at me”, but I have to travel soon and the country I’m transiting through (Iceland) now requires a test.

I’m nervous about it because I’m vaccinated, so I very well could have a mild infection and not know it, and get denied boarding and quarantined at home.

At least it’s an antigen test and those miss most non-symptomatic infection anyway.

Or you could test yourself daily at home before your departure day and remove the element of surprise.

But a positive test isn't forever. I could test positive today (and disqualify myself for 2 weeks) while I could test negative next week.

Plan was to lay low for the couple weeks before departure.

Self-tests are hard to come by here.

Because of disparity between states and the large number of anti-vaxxers, We probably will never reach herd immunity which means that Covid-19 will become endemic and everyone will eventually catch it. With the mutations and winding down immunity it is likely to stay with us.

So, getting a vaccine significantly reduces the risks of death and and getting exposed to the virus naturally will be our immune booster.

That’s why I’m quite relaxed now, I expect to get infected at some point. Maybe not today but in few months when the vaccine induced antibodies can no longer prevent the infection.

Even if there were fewer anti-vaxxers, the Delta variant is so contagious that we won't be able to reach a level of herd immunity sufficient to protect unvaccinated people. All of us can expect to be exposed eventually.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Do you have a good source on this?

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

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