On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:33:29 PM UTC-7, Gregg Ballou wrote:
How could you guys not have seen these claims? If you want other sources search, it is part of the current conventional wisdom on covid. And if you believe the current conventional wisdom on covid then isn't recreational flying immoral?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/healt...ess/index.html
Health officials from Dr. Anthony Fauci on down are cautioning people that no one can dump the the face masks and social distancing behavior just because they've been vaccinated.
Why a Covid-19 vaccine doesn't mean that you can stop wearing a mask
Why a Covid-19 vaccine doesn't mean that you can stop wearing a mask
That's because even people who are themselves immune to the virus might be exposed to it and transmit it to others. It can grow in the nose, says Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"It's possible that someone could get the vaccine but could still be an asymptomatic carrier," said CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician. "They may not show symptoms, but they have the virus in their nasal passageway so that if they're speaking, breathing, sneezing and so on, they can still transmit it to others."


Be careful what you read on the internet. When you contract a viral infection, there is a period of time between when you are exposed, and when you start making virus particles that you can spread. This is call the incubation period. Some viruses you can spread before you develop symptoms (like COVID-19). Once your body is exposed to the virus, it takes parts of the virus and makes antibodies to those parts to help it fight the infection. This takes time, and before you are able to recover from it, you have spread virus particles around and infected others.

However, if you have been vaccinated, the antibodies are already present in your body before you are exposed to the virus. When you become exposed to the virus, your antibodies jump on the virus and help your immune system destroy the virus BEFORE it has the chance to start replicating. As a result, you do not make new virus particles and are unable to infect other people. You also do not get the infection. You may feel a little sick during this process, as it results in an activation of your immune system and all the hormones involved (cytokines) are responsible for why you feel sick. But the virus is stopped before it can be spread. That's why vaccines work.

Now if your immune system does not mount a satisfactory response to the vaccination, then you may not have sufficient immunity to drive it off. This is one of the reasons the COVID-19 vaccines are a 2-part series--to boost the response and improve the likelihood of successfully preventing infection..

There are some people who even after the two part vaccination, still will become infected and are able to transmit the virus. No vaccination is 100% reliable. Some people will become "asymptomatic carriers", as you point out, but these are by far the minority of those that have been vaccinated. It is another example of CNN taking things out of context and blowing them out of proportion in order to stimulate ratings and spread fear among the public. While we are still rolling out the vaccine, where most people have not been vaccinated yet, it makes sense to continue to wear the face mask to prevent the spread, even by those vaccinated. However, after most of the population has been vaccinated, there will be very little danger to the general public, unless they have not been vaccinated. This is all assuming that the virus does not mutate to a strain resistant to the current vaccinations.