HAHA you ask a difficult question! When near 100% of Aussies are vaccinated, only a dummy would expect unvaxxed to be crowding the hospitals.
Another ignorance prevalent on this forum is the MIS-Conception that vaccines prevent infections! It is such lack of basic common sense and non-thinking brain to reach such absurd assumption. NO VACCINE in history of mankind ever created a vaccine which builds virus proof filter in the nose. If you are breathing and there is virus material floating near you, you will inhale it, and the virus will start replicating pronto. Nothing can stop this.
Function of vaccine comes into play AFTER the infection. It is to have created anti-bodies for the virus and help kill the virus before it overwhelms body’s defenses.
Most vaccinated people get asymptomatic infections. That leads the un-thinking to believe the vaccine stopped infection.
Case in point is little old me. I had the best vaccine ever created which literally removed the 30%+ mortality rate disease from the entire world. Yet 2 years later I got infected with it and had all the symptoms of the disease. But I am still alive and kicking 72 years after the infection because the vaccine had created anti-bodies and probably why I recovered. Yes it was smallpox.
there are three reasons to take an inoculation traditionally: these are all good reasons, scientifically proven over many years. and all assume the avoidance of infection. if you can’t avoid infection, there is zero reason to take an innoculation, all bs about lessening the fatality of the disease put aside. an infection is a failure of the innoculation. period.
one is to get the infection out of the way because you don’t want to get it later at an inopportune time.
thus at war, Washington innoculated his troops with the virus all at once to keep the infection (probably already spreading throughout the army) from being dragged out for weeks or months. this was critical to the success of the American Revolution and thus justified in Washington’s eyes. that the infection was going to hit the army was a given. and it was assumed that the army bivouacked would be the best situation to handle the infections instead of one in active battle and campaigning.
second, you get innoculated to avoid infection in an area where the disease is endemic. when you’re travelling. again the assumption is that you won’t be infected at an inopportune time when exposed and exposure is assumed to be 100% in the situation.
third, you work yourself with immuno-compromised, sick individuals, where if you get the infection, you will most likely spread it before you are aware you have it. here again the purpose is to avoid the infection in order not to spread it.
infection is defined as developing enough virus to shed it at a rate large enough to spread the infection at an R0 > 1. period. that’s the defintion. effective innoculation prevents that from happening. period. it doesn’t matter whether you’re symptomatic or not. although scientific experience and proves that when you’re first symptomatic (or just before), you are shedding by far the most virus or pathogen.
that’s it. there’s no other reason to get innoculated, no matter what lies you or faschi or the cdc/fda is spreading about the purpose of vaccination.