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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by MarkLowenstein on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:10PM (#30089283)
Was that really the point?

When people anxiously awaited their chance to get the vaccine in January 2021, were they thinking "ooh I can't wait to free up hospital beds"? Or was it "great now I can be immune and be done with COVID"?

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by IneffablePigeon on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:31PM (#30089641)
I mean, both? I think the vast majority of people I knew (UK, in my 20s) knew that the main reason we were locked down was to minimize the risk of the NHS being so overrun it couldn't perform basic healthcare.

Of course personally we all just wanted to not be locked down any more but I don't actually think that many of us were staying in for our own sakes - we knew the long term risk to our own health if we were to catch it was fairly low. Very biased sample, of course.

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