Originally Posted by
Shaman
So just like other places did at the height of the pandemic, Alabama can construct temporary facilities. We don’t need to constrain everyone’s liberty or freedom to take care of a problem in one area.
Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
1. You could cause me to get a breakthrough case. Getting very sick would be rare but possible. I'd miss some work that I don't want to miss and it will cost me some money.
2. I have children too young to vaccinate. You may cause a breakthrough case that I give to them or give it to them directly. They will probably not get very sick but they most certainly could. They will miss several weeks of school and that hurts their education.
3. You'll give it to other people and the hot potato will go around until it hits someone who can't vaccinate for a valid medical reason. It will kill some of them.
4. You drive up insurance costs and we're in the same risk group. So you drive up my insurance costs unless the company forces you to pay more.
5. You drive up government spending as they may end up paying for your hospitalization. Then you and I pay similar taxes.
6. You use up hospital resources that affect those of us who have actual emergencies. Right now we're out of Ambulances in Memphis thanks to the unvaccinated. If I get in a car wreck I may have to depend on them throwing me in a cop car, hoping they get me to the hospital in time, and then hoping there's a room available. Meanwhile a certain percentage of yall are on vents when you could've just gotten vaccinated.
You being unvaccinated absolutely does affect everyone else. Calling it a "Personal Decision" is disgusting when it literally kills other people.
You want to force people to put something in their body against their will. And you are using these justifications you listed. But the many of those things can be said for people who don’t exercise, have a bad diet, smoke, drink, drugs, gamble, porn, etc. Do you want to force a specific lifestyle for them as well so that they don’t infect you with whatever disease they may have, or clog up the healthcare facilities, or raise your insurance premiums and taxes, to take care of them?
We have to realize that we live in a country that is based on freedom and liberty. That means that there will always be people who will do things that are not the best thing to do and that will cost society in some way. Do we really want to head down that path and risk what we have in this country over forcing people to do inject themselves with something against their will when we don’t even force anyone about a myriad of other bad behaviors? We already have problems starting to arise from authoritarianism, I don’t think we want to exacerbate it more, especially over this vaccine. We are taking about a disease that kills the old (70+) and people with certain comorbidities (that most got from bad health habits). That for the vast majority, it will not get them sick. If this truly was as bad as the media and politicians make it seem, everyone would be clamoring for the vaccine.
Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
Actually the point I was trying to make was that your doctor knows how to interpret medical data and is telling yall to get it. You aren't as smart as him just because you read what you want to believe online. He's a DOCTOR. You're a pilot with a computer. I'm pretty sure I could google something that tells me I'm a ferret online if that's what I want to believe.
This has nothing to do with smarts. A doctor is educated in his field just as we are in ours. That doesn’t make one smarter than the other. But if you look for it, there are reputable doctors from prestigious schools that don’t agree with many things coming from the policy maker doctors in the government.
With that said, I know your response was sarcasm to make the point that you can’t believe anything you read online. I just wanted to add your comparison about natural immunity to cancer, to point out the flawed analogy in your sarcastic remark, not that I was disagreeing to it in whole.