Anyway,for my post to not be taken the wrong way, Vaccination won’t protect anyone from getting or spreading, but just minimizes the symptoms. My mother in law died from COVID a year ago in June. There were no vaccines. We couldn’t visit her in the hospital. We were on the phone with her nurse who was holding her hand when she passed. She did have other health issues, so she very well might not have been with us today, even if she didn’t have COVID.
One of our local (sort of*) TV stations interviewed a local doctor, a very reasonable, matter of fact, and well informed guy, in a rather long interview. It could have easily been extended to 1/2 hour, and, in fact I wish it had.** Using almost exclusively data from his own practice and the health care group he works in, he made a damn convincing case for anyone not having a contra-indication for the Covid vaccines to get vaccinated. One mention he made got me thinking, and I concluded...
There are two different types of asymptomatic Covid cases. One type (his mention) get infected, are a few days later asymptomatic and very contagious for perhaps two days, then continue on to significant symptoms that usually put the diseased person in bed (or worse) for the rest of their disease run, while their contagiousness (of Covid anyway) usually decreases in the last days of the disease.
The majority of those infected are asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms and DON’T get any worse. I suspect that if the virus is losing the battle, it sheds much less effectively too. If I understood him correctly, the Dr. indicated their data showed little spread from those who remained asymptomatic.
*Fringe reception.
**This Dr. was clearly very committed to his patients (came back to his old hometown in a lowish population area to practice), but also very “non-hype”, and remarkably clear with his explanations and info. The young reporterette asked some quite good questions, too. If these two had been the face of a prominent national educational effort on Covid, I’ll bet we’d have a 80% vaccination rate and 50-60% of the fatalities.