Originally Posted by
busdriver12
An unvaccinated person puts at risk those who cannot be vaccinated, like children and those with health conditions that preclude vaccination. Helpless elderly people whose caretakers decided not to vaccinate them. People who have weak immune systems that the vaccine did not work well for, people whose immunity from the vaccine has waned over time. People who need to go to the hospital or ICU for something else, who have to compete for care, or get substandard care. Those of us who want this Covid mess to be over and done with, not prolonged for years.
I’m not supportive of government mandated vaccines, especially while the paranoia that causes pandemic behavior continues to repeat itself.
How many people cannot be vaccinated? How much risk is there to children under 12? How many convalescent people have caretakers who didn’t vaccinate them? How many people with weak immune systems the vaccine did not work well for them? How many people with weak immune systems whose vaccine has waned over time? How many people did not get care in hospitals due to patients there FROM covid?
We are ignoring those who have tested positive and have antibodies and therefore their immune system has the memory to create them after they have been shed. And let’s not forget that out of the entire 18 months, this has killed 0.2% of the entire population of the country.
I agree with your last statement about being against mandates. But my reasons are because of the answers to my questions above. This is not the thing to sacrifice some of everyone’s liberty to fight something that kills a fraction of one percent of all people in this long amount of time, especially when there are mitigating factors that can be used instead in order to protect the small minority of the people you listed.