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Thing is, the vaccine doesn't protect you against infecting other people. This is a known fact, and common for vaccines. That is not the point of a vaccine. A vaccine prevents YOU from being majorly infected - in the way that your body can quickly deal with the infection, because it's used to it. It doesn't magically make you immune, and not able to infect anyone.

It's not the same disease.

It's the same kind of disease - an endemic seasonal virus.

We can agree on that, right?

The flu is dangerous, just look up studies, we've been researching this for decades.

Any viral disease can potentially turn into a 'long' disease. Long covid is just a meme at this point with a lot of people 'having' it with some unclear issues, and only a small subset of them actually having verifiable issues.

'I got the covid, and now I have brain fog!' - yes, or you might just have a psychosomatic issue because nocebo.

I do agree that there are people that actually get terrible symptoms over a long while.

I got the first few covid vaccines because you know, whatever. But I never got a flu shot, and will not really be taking covid shots now, unless we get in another pickle like we did before.

It's endemic, covid is here to stay. Being vaccinated doesn't make you totally sterile to the virus, you can still carry it and infect others.

That's also the way it's handled by my country (and has been for as long as I have been alive, for the flu) - Switzerland. People at risk get vaccinated, the general public usually doesn't

Fun fact: Corona is basically like the flu now. People die from the flu. People die from corona.

Do you make big news out of people not getting a flu shot?

It's a personal risk assessment.