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Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by betwixthewires on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:09AM (#29319481)
I'm one of those people that has not been vaccinated and chooses not to and will not. You don't need to get me on board, you're vaccinated. Leave me to the consequences of my decision. If I'm going to die, let me die.

And fuck off with the restrictions.

Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by halfmatthalfcat on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:28AM (#29319733)
The issue is your decisions not only affect YOU. That's the entire point. If you're spreading COVID, it affects all of us.

If your actions only affected you, nobody would care at all.

Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by betwixthewires on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:33PM (#29321363)
So that argument is dead, it has been definitively for a few months now, and the proof is in the article we are discussing in this thread. Vaccination is not preventing transmission. it only lowers the likelihood of severe illness, apparently.

So yes, my actions do only affect me, and potentially those who have chosen to take the same risk as me. Those who are vaccinated have the level of protection they signed up for, I have the level of protection I signed up for.

Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by halfmatthalfcat on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:01PM (#29324121)
And that severe illness is what is clogging up the healthcare system, putting a strain on those who do not have COVID and seek treatment. Again, still affecting everyone else.
Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by mft_ on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:55AM (#29331228)
Out of (genuine) interest, would you be willing to sign a document denying yourself hospital care in the event you contracted COVID and your condition required hospitalisation?
Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses by CRConrad on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:10PM (#29344041)
Sure.

But then go out into the wilderness and die under some fucking tree, so you don't take a bed in the ICU from some poor fucker who needs it not because of their own stupidity.