I asked you, very politely, not to repeat your previous statement but to explain, and share, the information that it is based on.

"Informative decisions" depend on information. What is that information?

Your decision DOES affect other people. As soon as you make any kind of contact with another person, occupy a space, or touch an object that they might, you impact them.

If you have a right to decide this for yourself I, and others, have a right not to be impacted by it. That's not selfishness. It's protection. Seeking to trample over our right to protect ourselves is what is selfish.

If you want to remain unvaccinated then you must also accept the need to remain isolated from those who are.

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You, deliberately I suspect, ignore the very first paragraph. I won't:-

"Millions of people have had a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and the safety of the vaccines continues to be monitored. Reports of serious side effects are very rare."

It goes on to explain how the vaccines are developed, tested and approved as safe.

So any risk is "extremely rare". Your claim of a 99.9% chance of recovery isn't true as we don't yet know the long term implications of long covid, but even a 0.1% chance is still much higher than extremely rare.

That though is NOT the most important reason. To act solely in your own interest is completely selfish. One day you will be old, and you may become vulnerable. You will then need people to behave responsibly to help you. This persistent claim that it doesn't impact anyone else is obvious nonsense. It does.

This has nothing to do with bullying. It has only to do with trying to defeat the scourge of misinformation. It has even less to do with the "Nuremberg Code". No-one is experimenting on anyone against their will. They are trying to encourage common sense, tested, safe public health measures which protect people. Your use of this as a reason not to do it is clear evidence of you being impacted by conspiracy theories. Please tell us where you have read this?

The pandemic is NOT over. The last wave is in decline. Better weather is coming. We have new drugs. Most of us have behaved responsibly and been vaccinated. But it's not over. Another variant could be just around the corner. A new pandemic could start, and we need everybody ready to work together.

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Game, set and Djokovic.

Maybe you should volunteer to go face the Russians in Kyiv as you obviously are impervious to threats without needing to take any kind of protection.

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Given the quality of the other decisions we know you have made this is really not a surprise.

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He makes a well argued case which, alongside everything else we learned, will doubtless inform us should we face identical circumstances again. There will always be someone with a theory which looks as though it might have been better, after the event. Hindsight being a wonderful thing. We don't all win the lottery each week, but someone does. Nor do we bet the house on someone's theory. We only ever risk what we can afford to lose.

I think though his argument doesn't really address the primary reason why we decided to lockdown. We faced a situation which looked as though it was getting out of control. We knew little about the virus and had no treatments, or vaccines. The overwhelming reason was to make sure the NHS could still function. The knock on impacts were predicted, but were in the future. We were dealing with the now, under pressure and in a crisis. There were dissenting voices, but the consensus was for maximum caution. In the circumstances that existed then I think the right decisions were taken.

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Keen? Frigging stupid more like!

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