Originally Posted by
FXLAX
Forcing someone to do something against their will is not freedom or liberty. No one is saying that unvaxed people want to do whatever they want. That’s a strawman argument. What they are saying is that they don’t want to get vaccinated. People’s risk of death from COVID is measured in the fractions of one percent for those under 75 and those without specific comorbidities. And the percentages for those vaccinated is even lower. So saying that someone who is unvaxed infringes on the rights of the vaxxed just doesn’t add up.
Forcing someone to get injected in order to protect those who are already protected by the vaccine amounts to authoritarianism.
Today my family just learned that its newest member died yesterday. She was 1.5 weeks old. She was born at 1.5 lbs 5 months prematurely to an intubated mother with COVID-19. The stress on her mother's body caused her to go into premature labor and she likely is unaware that her child has passed. So while you doubt the veracity of data being provided by research scientist in favor of what you've chosen to believe, this disease is having real consequences for real people. They're not statistics they're real people that mean something to someone.
The folks who dedicate their time and efforts to finding methods to mitigate the effects of this disease shouldn't have to contend with "guy who has "researched" @#$% on the internet" as SMEs. But here we are, thanks internet.