Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
You realize that's a massive number... Right? For perspective Cancer probably killed 0.3 or 0.4% of Americans last year. Covid was the #3 cause of death in the US in 2020 and because it didn't exist the previous year it reduced life expectancy by 1.5 years. Everyone doesn't die every year... Very small percentages do especially with population growth. The 2,000 deaths a day right now are completely senseless.
I do think that 99.8% is a massive number. That’s a lot of people (more than about 332,000,000) in the leaf 18 months that haven’t died of and or with COVID.
Many things kill thousands of Americans everyday. And many of those things can be prevented, ie senseless. But we don’t force people to eat a certain diet, have a certain exercise regiment, keep them from driving, etc etc etc. If we did, we could save a whole lot more lives than forcing people to get injected.
The point is that we live in a free country, or at least I’d like to hope we still do. If you want to be protected from COVID by those who don’t vaccinate, it’s simple, get the vaccination. I don’t think we should coerce people to get injected for something that vast overwhelming majority of people (even more so for healthy or people under 70), when people can protect themselves by freely choosing to vaccinate.
You don’t need others to vaccinate to protect yourself. You only need vaccinate yourself. So why force it?
Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
My neighbor who works in the ER as a RN had 3 people turn into lizards last week and 4 people turn into giraffes. The evil media doesn't report this stuff! Unfortunately the media didn't report the tracking portions of the vaccine and now I have an Apple Device on me that tracks everywhere I go. I'm tired of this Communism!
There is a system for self reporting called VAERS. But you are right, majority of media doesn’t cover it.
As for exposure notification on iOS, the federal government hasn’t mandated it. If they did, I wouldn’t say it’s communism. I’d say it’s authoritarianism.
Originally Posted by
Globemaster2827
The problem you have is that half us will back the company WHEN they require this. For starters I don't want to pay your insurance costs. I don't want to cover your sick calls. I don't want you giving me a breakthrough infections that I give to my daughter who's sits out school for two weeks.
We already pay for each other’s insurance premiums cost. That’s part of how group insurance works. And despite testing, doctor visits, medications, complications, hospitalizations, etc, the premiums are going down. We must collectively be part of the population that isn’t affected as severely from covid as those who are, over 65, and immuno-compromised, or those with specific comorbidities, most of which would medically ground us.
Covering for sick calls is one this that reserve is for. Is that what you are referring to? The ability to call in sick is a contractual and regulatory right. No way around that in whatever context we are discussing.
And what does breakthrough infections have to do with forcing people to be injected? If you are vaccinated, you are protected as much as you can be, regardless of anyone else’s vaccination status.