Quote Originally Posted by Old git View Post
The vaccinations help protect the individual from bad outcomes, but there is precious little evidence that they prevent infection or spread..
The covid vaccines don't prevent anything. However they dramatically improve your odds.

Deaths and severe illness are reduced by over 90%
Your chances of having symptomatic covid are reduced by over 50%, quite a lot more than 50% in some cases
Measuring the reduction of transmission to other people is more difficult, so there is less data. Even if people volunteer, they won't do experiments on us like they could with colonies of rats.

The vaccines are so effective that those of us who are vaccinated are likely to die of something else other than covid.

Tourism might not have returned to normal, but I think the odds of us being able to visit Thailand during the winter, with reasonable terms are improving by the day.

Here's the reason why:
https://www.pattayamail.com/thailand...accines-369142