Vaccine

I appreciate that many people are hesitant with the new vaccine. 

This is what a friend who has already gotten hers told me when I inquired about her decision to get it. 

For many reasons, there is the fact that it is a new type of vaccine method that is linked to your mRNA and that it had to be "rushed" out due to the urgency of the pandemic we are in. 

Regardless this is what I find interesting:

Most of the ads and support toward getting the vaccine centre toward that this is the way to prevent the spread so we can go back to normal. 

I do not think we will go to a normal for a long time. Of course it would just simply become a new normal. 

Getting the vaccine only protects the person getting it. It does not protect others from getting it from you, even though you may not get sick from it, you would be able to still spread it. 

Thus, we should still continue going on with the same precautions as we are doing right now and as if we did not even get the vaccine, if we did. 

The idea of Herd immunity does not really apply if those that had the vaccine shot can still spread it. The idea that if 9 out of 10 people in the room get the vaccine, this does not prevent the 1 person that did not get the vaccine immune to getting it because the people around them got the vaccine. It can still spread to that one person. 

Anyways, even with the vaccine, we will not be going back to the old normal. This may even already be our new normal. 

Check on those that are alone and isolated. Check on your loved ones. Really listen to them. Sometimes it is hard to tell they are having a rough time with this.