Originally Posted by FXLAX

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?



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.



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.