Now let’s make the sims easier. Say only 10 people that you interact with. The probability that the unprotected person gains from herd immunity is what we want to find out. If all 10 are vaccinated then the probability that none of them have the virus is 0.4^10=0.0001
Medical doctors, nurses, hospital workers, GP clinic staff... yeah you can convince me for them... but the accountant who works in a completely different building and never goes near the hospital nor actually meets the doctors/nurses/etc...
I don’t see grounds for dismissal
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Not at 40% efficacy anyway... now if the infection rate of influenza was much lower than its 75%, then the 40% wouldn’t be as bad, and you’d have a bigger window for herd immunity... and perhaps then a case for mandatory flu vaccinations might start to make sense...
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But we live in a world where you are infectious for 3-4 days, 75% of (unvaccinated) people exposed to you in that time will likely catch the flu from you (would be 45% of vaccinated people) so the virus passes like Mexican waves through the population
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Anybody who deliberately doesn’t get a flu vaccine is a dumbass regardless of where they work.
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Only 40% effective, and hopefully you’d get it at least 50 times (if you get it 100 times then it likely caused you no harm) so the cumulative risk goes up
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