@js290
I am very strongly against vaccine mandates btw.

@freemo "Protection against severe illness and death was, in fact, the original goal of vaccines. When I spoke with vaccine experts as the trials were under way last summer, they universally told me to temper expectations. Vaccines against respiratory viruses rarely protect against full infection because they are better at inducing immunity in the lungs than in the nose, where respiratory viruses gain their first foothold." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/

@js290 Ok, so that quote basically says "The vaccine will offer significant protections but will not prevent mild cases limited to the nose, but it will stop the spread from the nose to the lungs"

Cool