Vaccine Mandates

Public Health England: you can catch Covid more readily
if you’re vaccinated

I’m fully vaxxed. Have been since May. I need to make that clear. So is all my family and all those in our household  (Basil the dog aside). Since as early as we could. We’re all fully on board with the covid vaccine.  

But what’s with vaccine mandates?  Governments are demanding them, and many are pushing back.

The only reason I can see for mandates is that if you don’t get vaccinated “you’re harming other people”. 

But that’s not “the science”. Which is: (1) if you’re vaccinated you can still catch Covid, and (2) if you’re vaccinated, you can still pass it on Covid. The thing that the vaccine does is reduce both hospitalisation and deaths from Covid, by factors of 10 and 100, respectively. You take the vaccine to protect yourself. It doesn’t really help in stopping other people catching covid, or you from catching it.

The above chart -- data from Public Health England -- is the evidence for:

“You can catch Covid, even if you’re vaccinated”. 

And here is evidence for: 

“You can pass on Covid even if you’re vaccinated” [Internet Archive]

Net result: the case for mandating vaccination is thin. Why do it? When so many are dead against them, with pun intended. The risk, such as we know it, is theirs, the unvaccinated.