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You need to get vaccinated to do your part in preventing those hypothetical 80 year olds you speak of from getting sick

No, their vaccine protects them.

Some people can't get vaccinated due to health reasons or they don't mount a proper immune response. They need you to do your part to establish herd immunity.

I'm in neither of those populations but I really don't see why any healthy 18-25 year old would want to life a single finger for a 60-80 year old, after the latter left the former with a broken economy, overpriced education system and an unaffordable housing market. I mean, it shouldn't be on the younger (inherently politically weaker) generation to re-establish inter-generational solidarity... (You can see the effects of this even pre-vaccine - youngsters partying while oldsters arguing for lock-downs.)

That confuses generalities with specifics. The 60-80 year old that you infect might be someone who agrees with you and worked very hard to oppose those things.

As a 24 year old, because I'm not a shitty human who externalizes my anger at the world on a demographic who might have caused me some issue before.

Taking a vaccine isn't intergenerational solidarity. It's just ethically good. That shouldn't be politicized.

I suspect the number one reason is that most 18-25 year olds actually love their parents and grandparents, and don't want to see them dying an agonizing death from covid.

Clearly this doesn't apply to everyone, but I reckon it applies to most.

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