I know that officially the school's still out... but most scientists & doctors (but not all, depending what side of the political aisle they are on) currently believe that once fully vaccinated: "Can't Get It - Can't Spread It!"
Do you agree?
This isn't a political question, it's a scientific one.
And everything I have read basically says that they are unsure at this point. The main testing on the vaccines has been whether it keeps you from getting sick, but you can still get infected with it, which potentially means you can still spread it.
I'm not sure I agree with your assertions about most scientists saying it can't be spread. What are your sources? Because most of what I'm reading is along these lines:
“The vaccine is very effective in preventing symptomatic disease,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Maryland.
“But is it effective at preventing asymptomatic disease? There’s an open question about how much the vaccine is going to decrease transmission. It will take time to do those studies,” he told Healthline.
Or this: [i]What is the a-prior likelihood that the vaccines reduce spread? Pretty high. These vaccines work by provoking an antibody response that will attack the virus before it has a chance to produce a serious infection. Efficacy is therefore tied to reduced viral load, which in turn will affect how much virus is shed by infected individuals, and therefore how contagious they are. The real question is – how much do the vaccines reduce spread? It would be surprising if they didn’t reduce spread at all. But it is theoretically possible that they do not reduce spread sufficiently to change pandemic recommendations for mask wearing and social distancing[i]
So until I hear from an authority that I trust that being vaccinated means I am very unlikely to transmit (and not just
less likely to transmit), I plan to keep wearing a mask in public and around anyone who is not vaccinated.
Like, my chickens are vaccinated against Marek's, but that just means it won't kill them. They can still easily transmit it to (and kill) unvaccinated birds.
I am hopeful about statements like this,
Those caveats in mind, the coronavirus spreads most effectively through things like coughing and sneezing, so even just reducing symptomatic cases of the disease seems likely to slow the spread. Recent data have suggested that even one dose of the vaccine can drastically reduce viral infections. There is no reason to believe vaccines won't reduce transmission rates; it's just a question of by how much.
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