https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114228
Solidarity? Haha, this is America
My grandparents are all dead, but I don’t think my grandparents who lived through the Great Depression would want me to take the risk of heart inflammation as a young man, so they could potentially live a bit longer. In fact my grandmas would probably take a bullet to spare me health concerns.
Should the young be sacrificed for the old? WTF!?
Given that burning fossil fuels is harmful, I demand that everyone stop burning fossil fuels because it kills some people! https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/vehicle-e...
That’s a misrepresentation. Should the young take a hit of -0.1 disability adjusted life years to give the rest of the population +1.0? Absolutely.
> Given that burning fossil fuels is harmful, I demand that everyone stop burning fossil fuels because it kills some people!
Good news. We’re working on this. Unfortunately it’s not as easy as giving everyone in the country two jabs.
Ban ICE engines today, make everyone buy a Tesla. It’s possible, just like you say it’s possible to force everyone to get vaccinated. There are costs to it, not everyone wants to pay those costs! But it can be done!
And yes, fossil fuels are a health issue. Combined with the massive climate effects, it's good reason to try to stop burning them.
I am very afraid that we are heading towards an authoritarian state that is the best (worst) aspects of the most terrifying ideological empires (Nazis and communists).
No, that's not true at all. You got it exactly backwards.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
I wonder why you cherry-pick obscure sources from other countries while your own CDC quite clearly refutes your claims.
Moreover, you do not need to pick between either getting infected or taking the vaccine, so your whole argument makes no sense from the start.
It doesn't say anything about previously infected VS vaccinated but not infected (and there are studies that claim "natural" immunity is more effective; hell even original J&J trial data suggests that!)
Luckily for the CDC they just recently happened to get data proving that naive vaccinees are 5x better protected than recovered unvaccinated against infection. The study is horrible, with so many issues and conflict of interests... but who cares, the CDC published it, it even has a shiny banner for news media to share around!
Lazarus Long would have outlived the people who infringed his rights.
A wish to survive future infections? Solidarity?
Would you take a Covid vaccine if it was guaranteed to save your grandparents?
Can you meet the family of the old people you killed, look them in the eye and say ‘It was my right!’
Anyhow, the risk of catching and dying from covid is higher than the chance of heart complications at basically any age, so the fact that it helps other people is just a bonus.