I've never been diagnosed with a flu in my life but I've had COVID twice. The first time, I was pulling strings of bloody mucus out of my throat and couldn't lay on my back and sleep for a week. The second time I lost my sense of taste and smell and it also wrecked my energy levels. I'm still not where I was before Dec 23 with regards to energy or tasting / smelling. It's not fun and nobody's invulnerable.
I ask you to point the gun at one of your friends and pull the trigger once. Do you do it? Or do you put on a mask and get vaccinated and wait for the world to open up enough so your friend does not have to face that gun?
This virus kills. Not necessarily the people that took the risks, but possibly innocent bystanders. Our decisions affect people we know and people we don’t and some of them become life or death decisions whether we understand them or not.
Even at the macro level -- if you were not vaccinated, and contracted COVID-19, and later on passed it on to your parents or other elderly people, that is something entirely preventable.
Weren't those types of higher risk people the first ones to have the vaccine made available to them?
>herd immunity: resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on pre-existing immunity of a high proportion of individuals as a result of previous infection or vaccination.