The BBC has admitted what we’ve always known – reporting on a Lancet study they showed that ‘Individuals who have had two vaccine doses can be just as infectious as those who have not been jabbed’.
Numerous studies have shown this to be the case. Some also contradict the claim that vaccinated individuals are less likely to test positive.
We have been told over and over again to ‘get vaccinated to protect others as well as yourself’. This was the whole basis on which vaccine passports were sold to the public.
But these finding cannot be seen to hamper the rollout, so now instead of being told everyone must get vaccinated because it prevents transmission, we’re told everyone must be vaccinated because it DOESN’T prevent transmission.
“Unvaccinated people cannot rely on those around them being jabbed to remove their risk of getting infected, [the researchers] warn.”
But that was never the reason for not getting vaccinated. If you choose not to get vaccinated, it’s because you’ve done a rational risk calculation. You calculate that the downside (short-term adverse effects and unknown long-term risks, and limited, waning immunity) doesn’t outweigh the risks of getting Covid, recovering, and enjoying longer-lasting immunity. That risk balance is different for every individual. For example the risk from Covid for healthy children and young adults is vanishingly small.
“Double jabbed people are catching Covid and passing it on to those they live with,” warns the BBC. Of course, but also in all other settings.
Why won’t the BBC draw the obvious conclusion from it’s own story – that vaccine passports cannot work?
Numerous studies have shown this to be the case. Some also contradict the claim that vaccinated individuals are less likely to test positive.
We have been told over and over again to ‘get vaccinated to protect others as well as yourself’. This was the whole basis on which vaccine passports were sold to the public.
But these finding cannot be seen to hamper the rollout, so now instead of being told everyone must get vaccinated because it prevents transmission, we’re told everyone must be vaccinated because it DOESN’T prevent transmission.
“Unvaccinated people cannot rely on those around them being jabbed to remove their risk of getting infected, [the researchers] warn.”
But that was never the reason for not getting vaccinated. If you choose not to get vaccinated, it’s because you’ve done a rational risk calculation. You calculate that the downside (short-term adverse effects and unknown long-term risks, and limited, waning immunity) doesn’t outweigh the risks of getting Covid, recovering, and enjoying longer-lasting immunity. That risk balance is different for every individual. For example the risk from Covid for healthy children and young adults is vanishingly small.
“Double jabbed people are catching Covid and passing it on to those they live with,” warns the BBC. Of course, but also in all other settings.
Why won’t the BBC draw the obvious conclusion from it’s own story – that vaccine passports cannot work?
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