gypsyveganReminder -- #covid vaccines are semi-protective, meaning that they are extremely effective at reducing the risk of death and severe illness, while also being less effective at preventing infection/transmission and #LongCovid .
That means that:
(1) vaccines are PART of a prevention strategy, not the whole strategy, so masks rated to prevent airborne transmission, regular accurate testing, and air cleaning are still cruicial tools everyone should be using; and
(2) this is why it is even more important that we keep community vaccination levels as high as we can get them, and to vaccinate at a frequency that matches how long the vaccines are semi-protective for (4-6 months) with updated formulations based on current circulating variants vs variants that long ago faded away.
None of the above is informing anything being done or decided by the current fuckleheads in charge of public health.
From the fierce and fabulous @rebeccawatson
