It's a fair question. I think we all agree that being double-jabbed means you're very unlikely to get ill from Covid (unless you have an immunodeficiency condition or similar) - however I don't think it's clear yet whether being double-jabbed stops you from contracting the disease and spreading it to others. There just haven't been enough studies yet showing that being fully vaccinated means you can't be a carrier or be infectious to others. So from that perspective I think it does make sense to keep wearing them in certain settings - at least until we know more.
Fair enough. It just seems like we're gonna be wearing the flaming things forever. The way I see it, the elderly and vulnerable have, I guess, all been fully vaccinated. Most adults who want the vaccine, will have had one dose by now. Second dose numbers are going up all the time. Everyone I know in their 50s has had both, most people I know in their 40s have had both. I guess by late Summer / early Autumn, all adults who want it will be fully vaccinated. This leaves the under 17s - I don't know much about this, but heard they need to do more research on whether or not it is a good idea to jab that age group. They are seemingly the ones picking up Covid right now, BUT who are they spreading it to, if you think that adults have been single/double jabbed? I guess they are mainly passing it around themselves and perhaps it isn't going much further due to the success of the vaccine rollout so far.
At that age they are very unlikely to get seriously ill from it, the only positive cases I've heard of, saw those children back a week or so later, which makes it little worse than the flu, and I guess this is where it becomes a case of it being something we have to learn to live with. Isolating rule for kids is changing soon, I think then if you've been in close contact with a positive tested person, you are still expected to go in unless you feel unwell / have symptoms, and just do a daily test for however many days. Makes sense especially as households have piles of home test kits, and they are used to doing them like twice a week anyway.
There will be a point soon (when vast majority of adults are double jabbed) where I'm not sure who we are trying to protect anymore by wearing masks. Teenagers won't be spreading it to parents, grandparents, etc, as they are fully vaccinated, and will just pass it around each other. Won't we then be at the point of the herd immunity thing, where all school age kids will just get it, have a few days off to recover, then get on with life again? Unless in the meantime the powers that be deem it safe for that age group to be vaccinated. That just leaves those who chose not to be vaccinated. What do we do with them, just let them catch it and die? I'm not wearing a mask forever just because some people chose not to be vaccinated!
Yes there are some cases of double jabbed people still getting Covid, but the chances are very small, and even if you do still get it, those people aren't getting seriously ill with it. Cases are up but hospital admissions and deaths are down, and the fear and panic of pre-vaccine 2020 has gone, which tells us that the vaccine is doing its job.
