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> Last I heard they hadn't confirmed the vaccines contributed to sterilizing immunity anyways, so for all we know currently there's no strong link that vaccines are going to prevent transmission, but rather will mitigate symptom development and disease severity; so again, I don't see the point even at the resolution of populations.

This is because doctors are consistently silly about absence of evidence vs. evidence of absence. It's reasonable to assume that a vaccine will provide sterilizing immunity because they all do; that's what vaccines are for.

Public health agencies will always assume the worst right up until they see enough evidence. They also think you should cook steaks well done, but you don't have to do that either.



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