My understanding, and I am not 100% on this so don't hear me declaring the absolute truth here, is that vaccines are more effective at decreasing severity and keeping people from getting seriously sick than they are at preventing someone from carrying a viral load that could be detected by a test.
And that would make sense. Because any sort of immunity, vaccinated or natural, doesn't somehow create a forcefield that keeps the virus out of your body. It allows your body to efficiently produce the antibodies necessary to fight the virus effectively if and when it does infect you. So you don't get sick at all, or you get less severe symptoms.
So it would only make sense that a vaccinated person could still carry and spread the virus, though not a virulently if they aren't manifesting serious symptoms (e.g. lots of coughing and sneezing) which tend to force the spread further.
But the league treating vaccination as far safer than natural immunity is incoherent. It's just politically driven nonsense.
Yes. I’m double shotted as of April. I still got it in July from an unvaccinated person I work with (they essentially admitted it) however my severity was what I’d call 40% strength (my opinion from what others I work with experienced). The effects were noticeable for me until about 6-7 weeks, then I felt great. Lots of sneezing, but no fever to speak of. Minor Fatigue for about 4-5 weeks, a little irritability etc..
In the very beginning (state of spreading is short and mainly before you even have symptoms) giving rides to work to a vaccinated friend (he had broken his Driving foot). He was only working very limited PT, so he definitely caught it from me as he was mostly home bound at that time and his wife works for the state from home (homebody). 1 hour in a vehicle together.
However,
my wife (vaccinated) NEVER caught it, but my daughter did! (unvaccinated) but bounced back inside a week tops. She’s 3 years old (that’s another conversation for another day!)
Point being you can absolutely get infected but our symptoms were less and we seemed to spread less severity imo. However the worst cases at work (2 older men hospitalized for 1-2 weeks came near death by their admission out of about 15 people that tested +) both were unvaccinated. It took them 2-3 months to get somewhat normal.
I’m not bragging just trying to let everyone know that vaccinated saved my family and I passed a less severe dose to others. I’m 100% positive it helped quite a bit, not even a 1% doubt.
There may be some people out there who are scared of this vaccine or scared of the virus, no need to be if prepared. I was cooking and didn’t even realize I had Delta until I couldn’t smell the spices I was adding to our dinner. I got the natural antibodies AND shots. Best of both worlds and those making this political are forgetting about that yiu can have your cake (vaccine) and eat it too (get the virus and natural resistance).
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