Fallacy - The Unvaccinated Spread COVID and therefore should be ostracised
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 03/11/2021

You’d be forgiven in thinking that getting vaccinated is the best way to stop the spread of covid. The argument goes, “Unvaccinated people spread covid (and therefore should be ostracised from society – in some way)”. Personally, I don’t mind being ostracised, because I think our current society sucks. But that’s just my opinion. I’m sure many of you probably wish to continue living in a free (although broken) society. Regarding this argument (or should I say fallacy), it’s easy to believe because it’s all over the media. The Irish Times: “Unvaccinated people with Covid-19 pose ‘greatest risk’ of transmission”. SBS News: “Your unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give you COVID-19”. Even The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners are jumping on the bandwagon: “COVID-19 vaccination reduces household transmission up to 97%”. You can read the article for yourself, but if you do, you’ll see that the research is based on the Alpha variant, which pretty much isn’t relevant anymore now that Delta has take over, but nonetheless, The RACGP are feeding this information to our GPs. Perhaps 3 weeks ago it seemed correct, but not anymore.

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