Originally Posted by
FXLAX
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.
Not really sure that anyone could accurately answer those questions. But in the last month in my close circle alone, I can give you four little kids who got sick due to their anti-vax parents spreading it to them. Hopefully they will not have any lasting physical issues from this. One convalescent person whose caretaker refused to vaccinate him or herself and got Covid, gave it to him and killed him. Seems like it's the new way to murder your parents and get away with it. And an at risk person who got vaccinated early, immunity waned, and got sick, no doubt because he lives in a low vax area and was repetitively exposed. Fortunately he didn't get too sick (thank you vaccine).
0.2% of people killed in this country from a new disease, along with all the people suffering from long haul effects, is a large number. Especially since not everyone has gotten Covid, not everyone will, and it's not done with us yet. What is it, the #3 cause of death, behind heart disease and over 100 types of cancer all added together? And that's with all the measures we've taken. The social distancing, masking, vaccinations, staying at home, improving airflow, pouring billions of dollars into care and research. Can you imagine if we just pretended it was like the flu, like some people do, took no precautions, did no research, and pretended as if it didn't exist? How many more millions would be dead or suffering long term effects?
Even the former president, with a full load of antibodies from a serious case of Covid and the additional monoclonal antibody infusions, got himself vaccinated at the first possible opportunity.