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by SideburnsOfDoom 1719 days ago
> The others that even though they are vaccinated, can receive and transmit the virus to others.

I am a stuck record on this topic by now, but the word "can" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. You're making it sound like vaccinated and unvaccinated are equivalent, but they are not.

I can win the lottery. I can win a coin toss. But they are not equivalent, the odds are drastically different, so the risk management is different between the two cases.

There's more to it than "it can/cannot happen". it's not boolean. It's all risk mitigation, phrases like "80% vaccine efficacy" should tell you that we're not sith dealing in absolutes here.

it is simply pragmatic good sense to keep unvaccinated staff away from patients, because of the increased risk.