I’m going to need to break it down. Let’s see:
If I had chosen to not get vaccinated, I could get COVID. Then, I could transmit it to other folks who had declined to get vaccinated. That I suppose does pose a type of threat to the health of the general public.
It would only be a threat to the public health of the unvaccinated, though, assuming vaccines really worked. But that’s the rub. The stuff CAN be transmissible to vaccinated people, too. That raises questions about the efficacy of the vaccines. (And it raises parallel questions about the testing as to the safety of the vaccines, too.)
If getting vaxxed doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get it and it doesn’t guarantee that you won’t transmit it, then a decision to not get vaxxed no longer seems to be such a threat to the public health.
I get it. Getting vaxxed supposedly decrease your chance of getting infected. And supposedly if you do get infected, it will be less dangerous, decrease the need for hospitalization and lower the risk of death.