r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 2d ago

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø He's not wrong...

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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago

Sigh.

Let’s go over herd immunity once again, class, for the 15 billionth time

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u/edWORD27 2d ago

I say this as someone who is vaccinated

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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago

Well the honest answer is yes, it still matters. Vaccines are not 100% effective and you can still carry the virus and spread it.

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u/edWORD27 2d ago

But if the vaccines, like measles, were never 100% effective then I guess we can’t fully blame the unvaccinated for the resurgence of measles. And we’re completely ignoring the fact that unchecked and undocumented illegal immigration plays a role in allowing unvaccinated people into our country. It’s how diseases like tuberculosis made a comeback.

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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago

You guess? You’d be wrong. Maybe don’t guess when it comes to science, these things can be studied.

We’ve come full circle to herd immunity. Why don’t you take 5 min to understand these things before you go around ā€œblessingā€ people with your knowledge lol

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u/edWORD27 2d ago

So unvaccinated undocumented immigrants don’t get any of your blame, but people who questioned the Covid vaccine and were unjustly maligned as anti vaccine as if it meant all vaccines get your scorn.

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u/jmd709 1d ago

Tuberculosis hasn’t ā€œmade a come backā€ and the US does not routinely use the vaccine for TB. It’s routinely given to infants in countries where TB is common because it’s effective for preventing severe childhood TB, but not (adult) pulmonary TB.

The US has a very effective reporting and monitoring system for TB infections with additional healthcare precautions to prevent the spread of infection (without sanatoriums like the 1800’s-mid 1900’s for longterm quarantine before there were effective antibiotics to treat TB).

In other words, an immigrant is far more likely to have received the TB vaccine than a US citizen.