Fundamental freedoms can be dangerous. This is something that's hard to admit for people who've never experienced the more real side of life, the people who haven't stared death in the eye before.
Patrick Henry was not the only person involved when he made his declaration. Many people died, due in part to his words. Life is nasty, hard, and has a 100% mortality rate.
Let me put it this way: would becoming a full police state be worth it to you, if it eliminated Covid? No? Where's the line?
Not true with delta, sorry!
The same is true of rabies. Say what you actually mean.
I couldn't say about the rest of the world.
I think of this because I think, even though I trust the vaccine to be safe, what if there are unknown side-effects. In that way it is good that some people don’t get vaccinated. So that humanity still has some people that don’t get those side effects.
So in a way, it would be like a natural way for the human race as a whole, to continue existing, by some people not getting vaccinated and possibly being the ones that made the right choice after all.
Does that make sense? I think it does. Even though I believe in the vaccine. But I am talking about the bigger picture of the humanity as a whole over the whole course of its history. That it’s like a strategy that helps us survive by having us believe different things and therefore acting differently on the same information. And that sometimes one group of people is right, and usually it’s the majority group. But that this helps us survive those times when the minority is actually right.
If awkward language has to be used to rectify things/save lives then so be it (it may as well be me as anyone else). I have difficulty understanding why this is not the correct and proper thing to do. What's so wrong with stating the obvious truth?
It seems to me that these days sensibilities and what people think are more important than saving lives. If this is in fact so, then heaven help us.
They are still going on about the unvaccinated, there’s no such thing as herd immunity in the politics of COVID lockdowns.
Sweden has 65% vaccinated and no mask mandates or passports, or mandatory vaccines. It’s purely a political decision and nothing to do with this or that rate.
Previously BC had 1/10th of the infections no one vaccinated and we were open for business.
Life's a risk from well before you were born until the day you die. Taking risks everyday is what life's all about. That said, when transversing life's obstacles it's incumbent on you to do your best to not trample on others and thus increase their risks. And sometimes that means taking additional risks yourself as it's the right and proper thing to do as it minimize the risks for others - and here that additional risk is pretty insignificant - that of bring vaccinated.
I'd contend that those who aren't prepared to take that risk are acting selfishly. If not, then they're spooked or damn scared.
Why some people in the US, where there's access to good eduation, verifiably accurate information, etc., and yet they still refuse to accept evidence and logical argument is one of the big conundrums of our time. Still, even with all these obstacles in hand it's our duty to help them, difficult as that may be.
# That's a raw point at the moment for me as a close friend of some decades died a few days ago (no, it wasn't COVID).
This is obviously ridiculous, but it's why you should always have a control group.
With a claim of that magnitude you shouldn't need to look far, as you'd be able to spot the evidence from afar no matter what direction you looked.
BTW, everyone who I know including myself haven't had the slightest of problems.
Imagine reading that sentence in a newspaper op-ed in 1956 but with the word "polio" in place of "COVID-19".
The tragedy is people are dying there more than many other places in the US, so that begs the question as to why. Covering the issues up with sweet words or ignoring them doesn't help the next lot who'll become infected and those who are seriously ill and about to die.