a) It is more dangerous than the common cold for everyone, whether vaccinated or not. Vaccination will probably keep you from being hospitalized for a long period of time or dying, but it will affect you far more than the common cold.
Well see, that's something that's just patently untrue.
Even prior to vaccines being available, there were people who had asymptomatic cases.
Now that vaccines are available and a large number of us have had them, for the small subset of people who do get breakthrough cases, there are several that are asymptomatic.
In fact, the CDC suspects there actually quite a few asymptomatic cases
COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States
And they're basing that on the fact that the only the breakthrough cases they're tracking are ones that were hospitalized.
They came to that conclusion because of the fact that of the breakthrough cases, 27% (per the article I linked) were hospitalized for things unrelated to covid, presented no covid symptoms, and had originally been admitted for something completely unrelated. They just happened to catch it with routine admissions testing.
So, the chances are, if 27% of breakthrough cases they know about (and discovered due to testing protocols for hospital admissions for other reasons) were asymptomatic infections, and the only people who are getting subjected to regular testing are athletes and people in very certain lines of work, and people who don't have any covid symptoms aren't just randomly deciding to go get tested (in fact, the public health officials even told vaccinated people that they didn't need a test after a known exposure if they didn't have symptoms)
We probably have a lot of asymptomatic infections floating around among the vaccinated as we speak.
Like when they caught the cluster of breakthrough cases on the Yankees... 9 people, 7 were asymptomatic, and 2 had very mild symptoms. Chances are, if those 7 guys were grocery store employees and not professional baseball players, they never even would've gotten tested if they didn't have any symptoms.
I'm on the pro-vaccine team here, I got it the day after they expanded eligibility to my age group (and followed the protocols up until that point), and I think everyone else should as well.
But this unfounded exaggerating and scaremongering isn't winning anyone over to our side.
It's just making people think we're "full of it" when the exaggerated warnings about "what's gonna happen" never come to fruition.
We need to focus on the basics and the truth.
The 125,682 "breakthrough" cases in 38 states represent less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people fully vaccinated since January.
And only 1300 out of the 164 million vaccinated people (or 0.0008%) have died...
So, if you're vaccinated, you have a 0.08% chance of developing symptomatic covid, and a 0.0008% chance of dying from covid. I, as a vaccinated person, literally had a higher statistical chance of getting hospitalized by a food borne illness eating chipotle earlier today than I would from covid (and a a much higher chance of getting killed riding my bike there to pick it up than I would have for dying from covid) ...yet I wasn't particularly paranoid about my lunch prognosis.
Trying to tell vaccinated people that they should be deathly afraid of this isn't doing anything other than inadvertently undermining confidence in the vaccine.
If you look at those kinds of numbers, and compare those to other societal risks we take every day, it should be evident that "making vaccinated people paranoid of covid" simply isn't a good way to manage risk. If we stopped doing everything that had a 0.08% chance of us getting hurt, or a 0.0008% chance of us dying, we'd literally never do anything.