"But why bother getting vaccinated if nothing changes? If we have to wear masks and have lockdowns and stuff?"
I tried to explain it to my partner, and he got it, but said it was "too complicated" for most people, heh. He said "people are asking, why bother getting the vaccine if nothing changes?" I said "things WILL change, but it's like dungeons and dragons... let's say you have a 100-sided die, right? Rolling 50-100 gets you infected. Below or above that, and you're fine. If you are vaccinated, you get +95 to your roll, so you're only at risk if you somehow roll 1 through 5. Way better odds, right? But it doesn't stop there. See, ever single person who gets infected has to roll another die. If they roll 1-5, a mutation develops in their body, and this mutation is one that the vaccine isn't effective against, so that +95 to the roll is gone, and all the protection against symptoms is, too. I am not giving accurate numbers, but explaining how probability works in this situation."
Basically, TLDR, people with the vaccine are way less likely to get sick and to be carriers, but with a majority of the population still unvaccinated, even vaccinated people are at risk, because there are so many potential carriers still, so there's still a high potential for mutations that the vaccine cannot fight.
That's why we are still being asked to follow pandemic protocols. We who are fully vaccinated ARE much safer- for now, but that could change before we know it, so we need to stay the course until we achieve herd immunity through vaccination.
As for the people who say "it's my personal choice," remember that your choice doesn't just affect you- you can spread the disease, even when it is asymptomatic, to other people, who can then die or be permanently damaged. That is something YOU are responsible for doing- their blood is on your hands.
