But diseases don’t work like this. If you get sick, you will get others sick. If you get very sick, you will occupy a hospitable bed. Given current hospital utilization rates, this could well end in a sick person being turned away.
Given the societal costs, it seems fair to me to ask for a stronger justification than “I don’t think the virus will hurt me”
In fact, everything you do outisde of your workhours is your personal risk, so it needs to be banned I guess.
Sounds fine to me. I am blind and can not do most of the fancy recreational activities you sighted people are so fond of. So why should I care. In fact, I should immediately start a petition that makes your lifes more dull and miserable. But guess what, no. Thats not my thing. I am not an asshole.
And yes, of course, with a different situation, my decision might be different. If covid were as harsh as our media and government claimed at the beginning of the first lockdown, I would certainly get a shot. However, it turned out the media and government have overstated the danger, apparently to achieve compliance. This sort of lie (we were told "everyone will know someone who died") was my wakeup call. I was originally mislead and expected a deathrate of 1%. As it turns out, almost only the elderly die, and the deathrate (including the elderly) is around 0.1%. Wrong order of magnitude for real panic on my side.
To be fair, this is what the vaccines do.
If my ability to make a living will be held hostage based on my vaccination status, or if https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4980 gets passed, I will change my mind and get the vaccine just so I can gtfo of here.
