gypsyvegan<p>Reminder -- <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> vaccines are semi-protective, meaning that they are extremely effective at reducing the risk of death and severe illness, while also being less effective at preventing infection/transmission and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> .</p><p>That means that:</p><p>(1) vaccines are PART of a prevention strategy, not the whole strategy, so masks rated to prevent airborne transmission, regular accurate testing, and air cleaning are still cruicial tools everyone should be using; and</p><p>(2) this is why it is even more important that we keep community vaccination levels as high as we can get them, and to vaccinate at a frequency that matches how long the vaccines are semi-protective for (4-6 months) with updated formulations based on current circulating variants vs variants that long ago faded away. </p><p>None of the above is informing anything being done or decided by the current fuckleheads in charge of public health.</p><p>From the fierce and fabulous <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rebeccawatson</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/BJ1hV2U-Kpc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/BJ1hV2U-Kpc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CovidPrevention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CovidPrevention</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/YallMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YallMasking</span></a></p>