Nice story.
Meanwhile at least 5 million are dead - 750,000 in the US alone.
How does your story help their families?
Meanwhile at least 5 million are dead - 750,000 in the US alone.
How does your story help their families?
So can I live my life and worry about own family and not someone’s I don’t know?
Unfortunately, no. We live in a society where sometimes we have to take collective action to prevent collective harm. Taking personally inconvenient measures to help fight an epidemic is a prime example.
Yes there are collective actions we take, and the first two weeks of covid response might’ve been justified. But nothing since then. Maybe having to get tested to get on a plane.
Natural immunity does lower your chances, but you’re saying nope for the collective good (the good you’ve decided on) you must do xyz.
Bull crap. The emperor has no clothes.
For example, people might get struck by lightning walking by your house, so we must force you to install a lightening rod on your house to protect the collective.
Where does it stop, and how do you make that determination?
There isn't an easy or obvious answer to where it stops and how to determine that, but that goes both ways. We can't just have zero laws for fear that the laws might overextend themselves.
Unfortunately, we have to deal with nuance either way.
Two important considerations:
1. The vaccine is extraordinarily effective at mitigating risk of hospitalization and death.
2. No current COVID vaccines are sterilizing. Vaccination confers only marginal reduction in ability to carry and transmit the virus (and even this, mainly due to duration, not due to viral load).
Taken together, the "get vaccinated to protect me" canard is insane. I don't care if other people are vaccinated or not, because I am. Any other position is political, not scientific.
There is a minor argument to be had over the (tiny) immunocompromised population, but it's important to bear in mind that this population already does conduct their lives with isolation, antiviral, antibacterial, and other safety protocols regardless of COVID. They did it before the pandemic, and they will after. Nothing changes for them regardless of vaccine uptake rates.
Did they die from COVID-19 or did they with COVID-19?
Italy just revised their numbers and it’s quite a significant difference.
Also, when you have deliberatly forced an additional 150 million people into extreme poverty to keep them healthy ( as it were ), you are bound to see a spike in deaths.
Frankly I am surprised the death toll of the brutal restrictions toward marginalized populations is not higher.
I suspect we will soon reap the dubious benefits of undoing 35 years of 3rd world progress in 22 months.
6 months ago I still cared. Now I am just numb.
Reduced from human being with rights, to a piece of diseased flesh that must be muffled, silenced, tested, regularily injected with one experimental drug after the other and preferably locked up for eternity.
To add to it, I must feel a sende of pride in partaking in this. Because it is the holy science.
My very existence is inconvenient to the experts.
Here are some links to challenge your statements:
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-066768
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
I would post more, but I'm sure that you're capable of using Google.
150m pushed into extreme poverty? If you mean the US, your facts are wrong. And then you pivot to the "death toll of brutal restrictions"? What is this nonsense?
You've been muffled - Oh wow, wearing a mask is just torture.
You've been silenced - Hmm, not sure what this nonsense is about.
Tested - Yup. As part of an ongoing pandemic, yup. If you can't live in civil society and agree to give up some small freedoms, buy land in Alaska and live in a cabin.
"regularily injected" - A) the drug wasn't experimental, and B) it was primarily two doses. That's not regularly...
"preferably locked up for eternity" - wow, that's exactly what my daughter said when I grounded her last week.
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds to people? How absolutely childish and selfish? This is why a huge portion of the US is just fed up with anti-vaxxers.