On average the people not taking the vaccine are more tuned in, have more raw facts available and have made a serious decision by weighting the facts. Thinking that this group must be getting information from Dr Oz or some other political figure you are against and blinding following is shallow reasoning. They are not the part of society who would blindly follow what they heard on the news or what a popular figure thinks or what society thinks.
Anything related to medicine or non-IP law on HN is a dumpster fire.
The number of uninformed comments on inflation/monetary policy on here is exhausting.
Nowadays, the outcomes from the several distinct vaccines have given us ten times, a hundred times more data than needed for such decisions.
On average, people like you simply can't help mistake anecdotes for data.
Someone can simultaneously (a) be trained in critical care & (b) be a vaccine skeptic.
It's analogous to meteorologists who don't believe in climate change: yes, it's kooky, but it's also not the job they're doing.
I try not to judge people completely based on a single characteristic.
How does a person's personal vaccination status, ceterus paribus, affect the care you're likely to receive?
Outside of, you know, directly asking them "Should I get vaccinated?" and being told "I wouldn't"?
Because it shows that they're not intellectually capable of making good medical decisions. The risk that the other medical decisions they will make are equally bad despite all evidence to the contrary increases.
- Those who believe that anyone who doesn't vaccinate "isn't intellectually capable of making good medical decisions"
- Those who are opposed to vaccination because they believe in conspiracy theories
- Those who are are either pro- or anti- vaccination, but realize it's a complicated issue, with evidence-supported pros and cons, that other humans of reasonable intelligence can have different opinions than themselves about
Unfortunately, the first two groups tend to be the loudest and most religious about it.
One of my best friends who lived in Seattle whose wife did have complications during pregnancy. He told his doctor that in no uncertain terms if they had to make a choice between his wife and his unborn son, to save his wife’s life. They had to perform a c section early to save his wife. His son is healthy and thriving and he had a vasectomy soon after their child was born to not risk another pregnancy and they adopted a child.
He said in today’s climate. If he had lived in a state like Texas, he would have found another job and moved.
To me the big difference is whether they're "I should not be vaccinated" or "Everyone should not be vaccinated." The former doesn't always mean belief in the latter.
So I look at someone being unvaccinated more like choosing to wear a spinning propeller hat to work every day... it's weird, and it makes me judge you, but it doesn't necessarily impact your work.
If you’re an anti vaxxer coworker, whatever. Your judgment about the vaccine doesn’t affect their ability to write good code. But if they were an Oracle fan…
Do you understand how insane you sound saying things like "the covid vaccine experiment?" Like some doctors just cooked up some crazy cocktail in 45 minutes and started sticking people with it on the street? Please.