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Maybe you are not aware of this but the vaccines don't prevent the spreading of the virus. This is because they prevent you from becoming sick, not from becoming infected or being contagious.

And after 6 months the effect of the vaccines starts declining and after 9 months they don't work anymore. That's why booster campaigns are starting now.

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The virus also changes, typically towards less virulence in an inverse relationship with contagiousness, even if the name is the same and all variants reported as if cause for additional alarm. Tragically, the population also changes as people who have not died yet are statistically less at risk.

Everyone has had the chance to get vaccinated by this point. Unless I'm missing something.

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