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Comment by BoingBoomTschak | original | Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
[−]BoingBoomTschak · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:42 UTC · link
> If someone refuses a vaccine and then passes on a virus to someone else, who dies

Why wasn't that other person vaccinated?

[−]koonsolo · 2026-07-02 Thu 08:04 UTC · link
Some people can't take vaccines because of allergic reactions. Other people have weakened immune systems and so the effect of vaccines is low.

For those people, it's the group that protects them. But of course you always have selfish pricks that only care about themselves. It was nice to see the amount of selfish pricks was pretty low in my region, and we got about a 80% vaccination rate.