Can you explain how if there are 2 people and one is vaccinated and one is not and both are equally not sick or feeling sick how one is a much higher risk that the other for transmission?. Or how one somehow has a higher load of transmission than the other if they were both asymptomatic.
If someone was jab and had a bit of a cough as example and someone else was not jab and was feeling perfectly fine no symptoms at all , I would say the jab person with a cough is more of a risk for transmission, or, it could be the other way around.
Because I know many people who were jab and they tested positive for cov, and some felt like crap and had mild symptoms. If the jab with cov did not get tested and had a bit of a runny nose and a little cough or something just an example and they decided to go out with a jab pass to restaurants and bars or to work they would have been a risk for transmission to others, but because they had a jab they had a free pass, it should not have been that way, yet someone not even sick no symptoms, no jab no entry automatically labeled a higher risk than someone who is sick with a jab. Makes no sense.
If people were knowingly sick, they should not have been going out. Period. (They still shouldn't be.) That was the purpose of isolation, even if one had been vaccinated. If isolation wasn't in effect, such as now, and someone goes out knowingly sick, then that just proves what I've said before--it shows how selfish and self-centred society has become. People are continually putting themselves above others.
You keep making this about the individual and ignore the larger implications. Someone who is unvaccinated is more likely to get COVID, more likely to get severe COVID, and therefore more likely to spread it. They are also more likely to needlessly add burden on the medical system.
You also don't seem to understand that "someone not even sick no symptoms"
does not mean they don't have COVID. That was why I pointed out that presymptomatic transmission and asymptomatic transmission were known about quite early in the pandemic.
"Similarly, researchers in California observed no major differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in terms of SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in the nasopharynx, even in those with proven asymptomatic infection.
7 Thus, the current evidence suggests that current mandatory vaccination policies might need to be reconsidered, and that vaccination status should not replace mitigation practices such as mask wearing, physical distancing, and contact-tracing investigations, even within highly vaccinated populations."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00768-4/fulltext
"Our findings indicate that vaccines may lower transmission risk and, therefore, have a public health benefit beyond the individual protection from severe disease."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01816-0
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Findings In this cohort study of 173 health care workers, inpatients, and guardians and 45 participants in a community facility, secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was significantly less common, and viable virus was detected for a shorter duration in fully vaccinated individuals than in partially vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792598
"Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in California prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to an analysis by researchers at UC San Francisco that examined transmission between people living in the same cell."
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/12/4...s-prior-infection-reduce-transmission-omicron
Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk questioned the accuracy of COVID-19 tests on Thursday after claiming that results showed he tested positive twice and then negative twice all on the same day.
