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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by nneonneo on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:13PM (#28701219)
I believe you’ve made your point that nothing will reasonably sway you. Even if a “scientific” study is performed (and many are certainly in progress - but science is slow!) you can simply latch on to any flaw in the study to reject the results.

Give me a good explanation of how a 25x effect size can be hand waved away. Even if you consider “leaving their homes more”, I have a tough time believing that you’ll be able to come up with an effect size that large on that basis alone.

As an addendum to this, I’ll point out that several jurisdictions dealing with very severe case loads, including Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, have cancelled many elective procedures in favour of putting more COVID patients in their wards. Doesn’t sound like these are “concerns other than COVID symptoms” to me.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by NotSammyHagar on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:12AM (#28703106)
Yes, I agree with you. People are so scared by the "scary potential dangers" that aren't happening that they don't take something that reduces their risk of death by massive amounts, 20+x times.

All you "young" people not taking the shot, there are lots of otherwise relatively young people dying every day. Don't die needlessly. Search for stories of people who regretted not taking it on your deathbed. Do you want your mom or dad to live without you?

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by mbg721 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:16AM (#28703120)
You're going to make an anecdote-based emotional appeal to an audience whose belief that they're being manipulated has constantly been validated by incompetence, corruption, and censorship?