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Maybe someone on here might be able to help me understand this.

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I've been trying to find out and figure out what the point of getting vaccinated is if the government isn't going to let places open up and and keep delaying the lifting of lockdown restrictions.

They are marketing these vaccines as the way out of all of this but as far as I can see absolutely nothing has changed, vaccine or not we'd all still be under lockdown.

If anyone here know's where to get any info on this I would like to read up on because all I find online is just news articles about the new variant and just current headlines. Not what I'm looking for.

Bit of random post I know but I wanted to ask you because I can't find anything and no one around me has any ideas either

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  • The vaccine was developed for the original strain of covid19, but with the new varients, they are like wild cards. I've heard of hospital patients having one varient of covid19, then being reinfected by another varient of covid19. As the virus spreads it mutates.  

    They are just hoping that the vaccine is still effective against these new variants, and that the varients doesn't mutate beyond the effectiveness of the vaccine, because if that happens then we'd be back to square one when the pandemic started, but instead of dealing with just one strain, it's a bunch of different strains. I'd imagine that it'll be a nightmare.

    I mean even if you get the vaccine and can fight off the coronavirus, you can still spread the virus to someone in your neighborhood who has not gotten the vaccine and has no immunity to the virus.

    But the main thing people rely on in society is not science or evidence, it's trust. If people do not trust evidence, they will just ignore it. It's because trust is intrinsic to our survival. I'd imagine in the prehistoric days, you want to trust that others will not poison your food or water, or anything like that. But nowadays, with the formal speaking style of politicians and governments that are rehersed, it looks robotic and untrustworthy. So people who do not trust you, will not trust anything you have to say, they will not trust anything you offer to them, be it medicine, science, food, or whatever it is, it will be treated like poison, something sinister, something evil.  

    I've learned that you can't just treat human emotional fear with just pure evidence and scientific facts, because fear is illogical, and people can have panic attacks about a lot of irrational things. But evidence and scientific facts is all we've really been receiving, which does not calm down the fear. 

  • in reply to Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia's thoughts are the ones I would have written, if I could have written them as well as that!

    (And, yes, I needed to copy and paste your awesome username! Wanted to get it right!)

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