Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
I saw on the evening news an answer to a question I have, if you get the vaccine can you still catch the virus and transmit it to others?

The medical "expert" said it is only 95% effective so you still need to wear a mask. What a moron! People are going to get a vaccine if they believe it will return our country to normalcy, not so they can continue wearing a mask for the rest of their lives. Already lots of people are leery of the vaccine - this type of irresponsible commentary will just drive the number of people willing to get the shot even lower. No vaccine will ever be 100% effective. 95% is pretty damn good.
I suppose if one wants to take a 1 in 20 chance that the vaccine won't protect them if they get exposed to the virus, sure, skip the mask. But until a sizable majority of the population has been vaccinated and infection rates drop significantly I'll keep wearing my mask because the vaccine and the mask are two separate layers of protection as long as the virus is still out there in sizable numbers of people.

And yes, if enough people get vaccinated and it works well enough we'll achieve a 100%, or darn near 100%, elimination of the virus. When's the last time anyone got smallpox? Enough decades ago that we don't even get vaccinated for it anymore because it has not existed anywhere in the world for that long.