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Re:Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan t... by cm2187 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:36PM (#29424548)
You are equating not taking the vaccine to being anti-vax. That makes a nice slogan but that is not true. For instance it makes zero sense for people who already got covid to get vaccinated. By now that must be 20-30% of the population in most western countries. The benefits for a healthy 20-something are also spurious. This is not the population that will flood ICUs. So you can perfectly decline to take that vaccine without being anti-vax in any way.

There are many people who decline to be vaccinated who are irrational (and I think anyone over 60 who does is just not looking at their risks right). But you won’t convince them by forcing their hand or making obviously untrue statements.

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Re:Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan t... by camgunz on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:49PM (#29424679)
> The benefits for a healthy 20-something are also spurious.

They can get it and spread it to others who are more vulnerable. Unbelievable that you and others still don't know the most basic facts about diseases, even two years into a pandemic. Please get educated and stop spreading misinformation.

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Re:Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan t... by cm2187 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:56PM (#29424759)
I will pass on the derogatory comments.

Except that it doesn’t look like the vaccine is doing much to prevent transmissions. The UK has been near 90% vaccinated since this summer, and despite that it experiences a high number of cases, of the same order of magnitude than pre-vaccination. And it seems to be the same in other high vaccination countries.

Also if you are vulnerable and unvaccinated, you own the risk.

The only thing vaccines seem to be efficient at is reducing hospitalisations, which at the end of the day is what matters.

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