If you take the shots, it protects you, but it doesn't protect others. Even if you took the shots, you can stil carry the covid virus in you and spread it further.
No it’s not just for you, if it was an individual problèm no one would be adamant that everyone or the highest number should take the vaccine.
But taking your shot is not just for yourself
- when you have your shot you can still carry the virus but you carry less virus than a normal person so it is harder to spread it.
- when you have your shot even if you carry the virus you have no symptoms so it is harder to spread the virus
- if the virus keep spreading new type of Covid will be created like the English type, the Brazilian type etc, and maybe one of those will be more deadly than the others. For now the current vaccine can stop most of them but who knows.
- the highest number of people vaccinated the lower the virus will spread in the population and that will protect even the non vaccinated people because it will die slowly. Even for later years, the most people are vaccinated in the world against COVID the less likely it will come back bother us in next years.
- if you are sick from Covid you take a bed in hospital, a bed that could have been used for something else or someone else. And I don’t think every country has an unlimited number of beds.
- the more people in hospital because of Covid the less we take care about usual disease etc. Lots of usual surgery, treatments etc were put on stand by because of the Covid. The death toll of the Covid is not just the number of people who died of Covid, there is also the number of person who had cancer, heart problems etc who died because they weren’t operate or healed. Or even just because people were too scared to go to hospital because of COVID.
- and for the economy : if everyone is vaccinated the economy will be able to start again, less people will suffer from unemployment, less bankruptcy etc.
- and we underestimate the mental side of COVID : the number of depressions, number of suicide, of long term problem for young people who didn’t go to school or barely for 1 year and half etc etc