This is correct, but as usual on here reductive and overly simplistic

Being vaccinated can help clear the virus from the system faster, therefore reducing the time spent being infectious.

= social benefit

Declaring oneself unvaccinated and encouraging others to do the same assuming everyone will have the same experience as you, ie. light illness, no hospitalisation, no long covid etc.

= selfish and shortsighted

It's not all about you, essentially. Just because the survival rate is so high now that doesn't eliminate the very real chances of being severely impacted by it in a multitude of other ways.

Edited by SW19 CPFC (09 Jan 2023 1.58pm)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

That's the exact same as telling someone / forcing someone to be vaccinated! Not everyone will have the same experience being vaccinated! Some people have terrible side effects! Some people die from it and some people don't recover for a long time!

Pretty selfish telling someone to get an experimental drug who don't need nor want it in my opinion.

The best course of action is to respect each and everyone's decision if they want to or not to get it! Regardless a person decision does not affect you!

As usual the point is completely missed

I have no personal issue with people deciding not to take the vaccine, nor any desire to force them to do so.

To a rational human what I said is obviously not the 'exact same' (American?) as telling someone to get it.

I do however have an issue with people who don't take it encouraging others not to do so, and even more so if it's based on pocket fluff and whimsey.

The number of people logged with notable vaccine side effects vs. the number of people who have suffered from infection is night and day. Therefore making out like they're equivalent is misguided.

I'd suggest the vaccines (plural, as there are many) are no longer 'experimental'. The sample size and time elapsed alone move us well away from that and will continue to do so.

I also take issue in people continually oversimplifying complex issues – as stated the current research indicates that vaccination can reduce the chance of infection due to reducing how long you might be infectious for (social benefit), along with reducing how much viral load the person you are infecting might get (social benefit).

It's that simple.

ALSO PERHAPS GO EASY ON THE EXCLAMATION! MARKS! IT! TENDS! TO! REDUCE! THEIR! IMPACT! WHEN! OVERUSED!

Edited by SW19 CPFC (10 Jan 2023 5.23pm)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Current debates are exactly like this 'my body my choice' abortion - fine. 'I can be whatever gender I feel like' Trans, LGBTQ etc, fine. Yet, COVID vaccine - 'choice?' take it or you're far right, if you don't agree with vaccination you're an anti-vaxer. Even recognizing that LOADS of people had bad reactions to the vaccine without labelling them conspiracy theorists would be nice.
Only good thing is that many 'far right, anti- vaxers' were hippy, pro choice types so diminishes the power of this ridiculous, almost blind religious narrative

Red and Blue Army!

Pretty sure I've not labelled anyone a conspiracy theorist here...

It's public fact that a significant number of people, globally, suffered reactions to the vaccines. What people, yet again, fail to be able to remember or comprehend is that relative to the total number of vaccinated this number is within expectations of pretty much every other vaccine on the market.

LOADS of people suffer reactions to vaccines on a daily basis. These vaccines are no different. For reference, the Shingles vaccine has a far worse side effect rate than any of the mainstream COVID vaccines. The flu vaccine fares slightly better.

Therefore if we all had to take the shingles vaccine tomorrow the numbers would be worse. But the difference is, we don't all take the shingles vaccine at the same time now, do we?

And in the context you just put it, the very definition of being opposed to or against something is to be anti it...

Besides, for me it's the constant wonky and poorly constructed reasoning behind why a lot of people are anti-vax than being anti-vax in and of itself. Again, entirely up to you, your decision. But if you start spouting utter dross as the reason then I'm going to go for you because it's absolutely intolerable.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

We would agree on viral load, however due to the reality that vaccinated or not you are going to get infected again I have to say I regard it as moot. The difference between anti bodies from previous infections and vaccines....which are only effective for three or four months and require boosters (who most wouldn't have kept up) means that again I regard it as moot.

The harsh horrible reality of covid, as with all infections, is that those who were going to die of that initial infection did. We are seeing significant excess death now long after vaccines were introduced and that's also due to weakened systems for whatever reasons. Considering most adults vaccinated the reality is that for the young and healthy this is of very doubtful benefit in terms of covid.

We have agree to disagree on the ethics regarding taking injections for a wider social benefit. I have no issues with people doing that if that's what they think they are doing however I do disagree with you on the ethics of this.

Vaccines used to be age appropriate, ie the flu vaccine wasn't offered to all ages and obviously the flu is an infectious pathogen. In my view that's going to be the system going forward and we will see if that's what the system is going to revert to.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 Jan 2023 7.14pm)

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