I'm sure you're right, and a lot of vaccinated people (maybe even the majority) believe that since they're vaccinated, they can just stop worrying about the virus. I suspect this is due to various combinations of wishful thinking on their part, utterly crap advice floating around on social media, and an inability to actually comprehend anything more complicated than realty TV. But I suspect it's also due to those in authority being reluctant to bluntly and repeatedly say, "Take the vaccine, but you'll still be vulnerable, and so you'll need to keep taking the same precautions." That's not exactly a persuasive line, when all people want to do is get the hell back to pre-Covid normal.
In the part of the UK we live in, around 70% of the population has been double-vaccinated now. For what it's worth - and it's not much, since it's only anecdotal - we were out today in several shops, and virtually everyone I saw was complying with the rules and wearing a mask when inside.
My understanding is that the current thinking is that while you can indeed pass on the virus if you've been vaccinated and come down with the virus, the number of viral particles you'll spread around will be lower than if you hadn't been vaccinated, and you'll be spreading them for a shorter period. It's obviously something that's very difficult to research and quantify, but that makes sense to me. However, that could just be me indulging in some wishful thinking.
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I'm sure you're right, and a lot of vaccinated people (maybe even the majority) believe that since they're vaccinated, they can just stop worrying about the virus. I suspect this is due to various combinations of wishful thinking on their part, utterly crap advice floating around on social media, and an inability to actually comprehend anything more complicated than realty TV. But I suspect it's also due to those in authority being reluctant to bluntly and repeatedly say, "Take the vaccine, but you'll still be vulnerable, and so you'll need to keep taking the same precautions." That's not exactly a persuasive line, when all people want to do is get the hell back to pre-Covid normal.
In the part of the UK we live in, around 70% of the population has been double-vaccinated now. For what it's worth - and it's not much, since it's only anecdotal - we were out today in several shops, and virtually everyone I saw was complying with the rules and wearing a mask when inside.
My understanding is that the current thinking is that while you can indeed pass on the virus if you've been vaccinated and come down with the virus, the number of viral particles you'll spread around will be lower than if you hadn't been vaccinated, and you'll be spreading them for a shorter period. It's obviously something that's very difficult to research and quantify, but that makes sense to me. However, that could just be me indulging in some wishful thinking.