Originally Posted by
Clear_sky
Nope. Your just looking after yourself! All vaccines state you can still catch and transmit the virus however your risk of severe symptoms are lower.
True, to a certain extent, but the risk of being infected with transmissible disease is very low after vaccination, much lower than in unvaccinated groups.
In other words, vaccination protects the recipient from severe illness and also protects others as contagion is greatly reduced among vaccinated populations , see measles , polio etc. these diseases although not exactly the same do offer some comparative data.
The obesity argument does seem to have some merit however reporting from countries like Vietnam is sketchy at best.