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Thats not a realistic option for COVID and the vaccines we have for it. Its a leaky vaccine (meaning you still get sick and spread it just as much) and the reduced likelihood for infection is nowhere near enough to get R0 under 1. Especially with every mutation (delta, omicron ...) having higher R0

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> Its a leaky vaccine (meaning you still get sick and spread it just as much)

No vaccine is perfect, but it greatly reduces your chances of becoming infected.

Relative to somebody not vaccinated with the same NPI. Just look at any of those studies, they are almost exclusively done on hospital staff which have among the strictest NPI. Once you drop those the difference doesnt mean much. Especially with the new mutations.

So again, herd immunity is not an option for the current vaccines and variants of covid. This is not a controversial statement.

Can you provide some expertise that says these things? Or are you an expert? Again, we don't need more people on the Internet speculating.

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