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Re:Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid ... by librasteve on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:33PM (#41989053)
a vaccine works in the context of the whole population ... it is usually (very slightly) risky for the individual but as a group we all benefit from selfless individuals who value the community over their own selfish interest (vulnerable folks to be excluded from this comment, or course)
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Re:Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid ... by dent9876543 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:50PM (#41989247)
I don't know.

The vaccine wasn't as effective as it might have been. So it didn't really matter that acceptance wasn't 100%.

For a better vaccine, or a less virulent virus, it might have mattered. But for the ones we got, it didn't.

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Re:Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid ... by cheaprentalyeti on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @04:39PM (#41989119)
If the covid vaccines were sterilizing vaccines that would be a good point, but they're not. As an example let me cite the case of Anthony Fauci, who kept up to date on his boosters but got covid three times.

(And what do you know, each time he didn't take the Remdesivir he limited everyone else to taking the first year of the epidemic, he took Paxlovid instead.)

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Re:Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid ... by rgrieselhuber on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:29AM (#41994128)
This was the rhetoric at the time and it just doesn’t fly.

You can’t force people to do something to their bodies in order to make you feel safe.

If you’re that worried, just stay home.

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Re:Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid ... by stroop on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:16AM (#41994449)
I just can't comprehend anyone being ok with government mandated injections, particularly when tied to your ID. How many governments in history would they trust with such powers.
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