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 viral 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. ( no offense intended) one would have to look at far more data to draw firm conclusions, but there does seem to be a link between being overweight or obese and death rates.
Most people over 50 in the Western world are overweight in the medical sense, not necessarily very fat .