I think the focus on a small minority of people who don't want to take a vaccine is unhealthy.
It's not this simple. Not taking a vaccine during a pandemic has negative externalities, since you're increasing the risk of infection and death of those you interact with, you increase the likelihood of consuming scarce resources (such as ICU beds), etc.
I largely agree with you, but framing it as a simple "individual choice" issue is reductive at best.
2. Some vaccinated people have been found to carry the same levels of the virus as unvaccinated people, so stating that unvaccinated people could be increasing risk to others is also a moot point
3. Once the so called "R" rate is below one, the virus is on a path to fizzling out
It's not as though unvaccinated people will be dying in their thousands for centuries to come. Herd immunity just needs to kick in which many countries have already achieved.
Some is in this case a small minority. In general you have the same level up to about day 5, then vaccinated drops down to zero over the next few days while vaccinated levels keep raising for several more days.
Are you saying it would be legal to ban cars for those reasons?
Israel would like a word with you.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
The focus is just, these folks are robbing everyone else of their freedom and happiness.
>The same people that don't understand vaccines are also likely to think masks don't work
I don't see how this is relevant. It just seems like a strawman argument to dismiss people who might have legitimate reasons for not having the vaccine or otherwise just want to exercise their right not to have it.
Who are they killing? Others that didn't get the vaccine?
I hope you didn't know it or didn't think it through, otherwise mention of Fox News seems to me a blatant hypocrisy. Either way it was an unnecessary ad hominem attack.
This is categorically false, sorry : https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1429449468261322759
What about people with immune dysfunction? Are you going to dismiss them as Fox News viewers too because aren't having the vaccine?
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia, is a huge rising conservative star in the style of Trump. She's downright anti-vaccine. "These vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus and neither do masks".
