'It's the best protection we have against serious illness'
The best protection each person has is to remove their comorbidities including being obese and having no lung capacity. Maybe eat less and exercise.
'not that any of us have any real choice in that matter.'
Go fix your own machines.
Three months... but it's not just the pay.
By the grace of God, the genius Satoshi Nakamoto, and my willingness to get in earlier and deeper than most, I now have some agency. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56049234-thank-god-fo...
In some ways, John Galt said and exhibited 'my body, my choice.' https://aynrand.org/novels/atlas-shrugged/
Capitalism wouldn't have shut down borders preventing airlines from taking on passengers. Government action led to airlines taking massive losses.
It's not about entitled or not. It's about the fact government action directly harmed them, whether or not justified.
No, it's not.
I am guessing like many he is angered at having to choose between his job and taking a vaccine he may not want to take. This same employer didn’t likely give a single shit about his safety before.
Logic says just take the shot, but people like to feel like they have some agency in life other than their employer forcing treatment on them so they can continue to be good little drones.
This was a theory that the entire vaccination program was predicated upon. The theory was, "We can't prevent infections, but if the body is primed to have a less severe reaction to the virus, it will do a better job of clearing it quickly and the viral load will be lesser, thus bringing r0 down."
It didn't turn out to be totally true. It clears quicker but it has no meaningful reduction in peak viral load on average.
So now, given that we don't have good reason to suggest that the vaccine results in lower viral loads, it stands to reason that the majority of asymptomatic "superspreaders" going forward are more likely to be vaccinated. The unvaccinated are more likely to get seriously ill and isolate.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v...
There is a disconnect between the thinking of those who make policy, seemingly many of the work-from-home formerly worked at office workers, and people who regularly toil in the field and have dirty fingernails.
Each dose of the vaccine likewise introduces new short term and long term risks and reduces future risks from covid. More so if you’ve never had covid, but still nonzero if you have had it and recovered. (Lots of people don’t really want to acknowledge one part of this or another)
The problem is how big are each of these risks and what is your tolerance for taking a certain risk (a vaccine) to prevent an uncertain risk (potentially contracting covid again)
Lots of people take sides and emphasize one set of risks as “known” and sort of pretend the other set doesn’t exist.
Covid has certainly killed a whole lot of people.
A very very large number of people have taken vaccines and a very very small number of them have had negative outcomes.
There is a risk to taking a vaccine and there is a risk to not taking a vaccine. How big is that risk and when do you decide one risk is worth the other?
One thing is for sure, whatever your opinion is, there are a lot of people out there trying to make money by reenforcing that opinion with “facts”.
Taking the vaccine is, if anything, a very small risk compared to many other risks you take every day (demonstrable by just how many people have taken it already and comparing it to, say, traffic accident statistics). The risk protection you have from surviving covid is also definitely decreasing with time.
It is hard to find information because so many people are pretending these risks are known. They just aren’t, there are bounds of uncertainty. Not huge bounds, quite a bit is actually known, but there is still uncertainty and you have to decide for yourself which risk to take and when.
There's no method to report adverse event, unless you go to VAERS and report it. Since coverage of negative effects will reduce the effectiveness of the propaganda being pushed, there's little coverage of adverse events, enabling the narrative to continue.
The CDC also doesn't consider people as fully vaccinated until 14 days after the 2nd injection, enabling them to skirt attribution of hospitalization or deaths that occur after the Jab.
Look at the VAERS charts of adverse events & vaccine deaths reported in 2021 VEARS compared to all other vaccines, as a starting point...
https://vaersanalysis.info/2021/12/25/vaers-summary-for-covi...
Your work, depressing as your story is, is orthogonal to the question of getting vaccinated. Still, that's a fascinating angle I hadn't considered. You deserve hazard pay, and vacation, same as everyone else. Whether or not your vaxxed doesn't change that. That you haven't received any is the fault of your employer and our brand of capitalism, not that any of us have any real choice in that matter.
[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...