Are you going to take the vaccine?

[MonadicSpectrum]

Unvaccinated populations constitute virus incubators: The virus keeps living and multiplying among them, eventually creating a strain that can break through others' immunity and even overcome vaccines. This is why global vaccination campaigns were done to eradicate diseases like measles. If you kill the virus everywhere, there wont be anywhere new variants of the virus can incubate.

However, if you do otherwise, you end up creating incubators which will eventually pop new strains.

Like how it happened during this pandemic - first major variant was from UK, because the government kept the country open for the sake of 'the economy' as long as it can. Thankfully it was more virulent but not more lethal.

The second major variant was from India, where the government did the same for the sake of 'the economy' and even let the poor segments rot to not spend money. Instead preferring to distract the population through creating stampedes with China on the border. Meanwhile, the virus remained unchecked in India, leading to the Delta variant which has still not gone away.

The latest major and dangerous variant is Omicron, and it was first found in Botswana, an African country that scarcely had access to vaccines because the Western countries were hoarding the vaccines and also refusing to release patents so anyone can produce them. And voila - what goes around, comes around, and now Omicron is in the West.

So, yes, unvaccinated people harm others.

I can understand how this might work in theory, although I'm not sure how true it is in practice. Here are a few points of consideration:

• Vaccinated individuals for Covid can still get sick with the virus, have a viral load, be vessels for a mutating virus, and spread the virus: https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/...ted-people
  
• There have been experimental studies that show that leaky vaccines (of which Covid vaccines are which is why there are breakthrough cases and a need for boosters) actually can cause evolutionary pressure on the virus to select for variants that are more virulent: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar...io.1002198
  
• Natural immunity has less chance of a breakthrough infection than vaccine immunity: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/...21262415v1
  

Finally, I think it always important to remember that each individual is unique and virus/immune system interactions are very complicated. It is difficult to generate a one size fits all for everyone nor reach broad ranging conclusions about how an action is purely helpful or harmful universally.