Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
We have had mandatory vaccination in this country for decades. Have you ever had measles or polio or small pox? This is public health and safety 101.
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Anti-Vaxxers? How do you handle? (1 Viewer)
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IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I'm pretty sympathetic toward people who get covid. It's an airborne communicable disease, and lots of people were/are going to become infected through absolutely no fault of their own. IMO, we've made a category error by moralizing this disease and talking about it as if infection is an ethical failure or something.
Then I encounter anecdotes like this and get reminded that some people really are profoundly stupid. In January, widespread vaccination was right around the corner. You couldn't wait a few months to go cougaring in Cancun?
bigmarc27
Footballguy
I can definitely understand how 1 guy having a rash is a worse outcome than the 500k deaths.
top dog
Footballguy
I find it kind of ironic that the same people I know that were telling me "MEH! COVID ONLY KILLS LIKE .0001% OF PEOPLE. WHY ARE YOU SCARED??" are now all beating the drum of "THE VACCINES CAUSE SIDE EFFECS! SCREW THAT I'M NOT DOING THAT". I like to tell them "If you are scared of the vaccine, just stay home." Pretty similar to the catch phrase all of them threw at me in the beginning of COVID when they said "If you are scared, just stay home."
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
More than 100,000,000 vaccines have been given in the US alone. If there were serious issues we'd know about them.
Meanwhile one out of every 650 people in the country has died of COVID.
Meanwhile one out of every 650 people in the country has died of COVID.
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Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
Only caveat for me is that I have not been following the J&J and AstraZ vaccines much. Seems like there are some potential issues or more hesitancy with these internationally for some reason? The data suggests that they are all safe and super effective though from what I have read.
The mRNA vaccines are the future. I got Moderna already.
arrow1
Footballguy
Did they have hundreds of millions doses sitting somewhere, or did they manufacture these all in the past few months?
worrierking
Footballguy
I have two old friends from back home who are military veterans, one of whom has a chest full of medals from his time in Iraq. Both are gung-ho types and are truly brave and dedicated to their country and were obviously willing to risk their own lives and their bodies for the common good in war. They are the two most anti vaccine people on my facebook feed, repeating every inane and disproven anti vaccine bit of misinformation. If their commander in the military had asked either of them to take on the riskiest task in war, I have no doubt they would have done so; they would have been the first to volunteer. But to take a shot to end the worst pandemic in a hundred years? They act like the biggest scaredy cats on earth. Complete $%##@$ies.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
I blame social media for a lot of the compounded stupidity we see now. There have always been stupid people, but now they have outlets that let them find other people with similar lines of “reason” and it festers and grows. Like what would Jonestown look like if they had Twitter and Facebook for outreach? I think that’s what we’re basically seeing now where no amount of proof and logic will stop the momentum until the kool-ade is all gone.
belljr
Footballguy
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Pipes
Footballguy
I don't see the irony here at all. Just a flu bros who throw that .0001% don't want a vaccine against something that isn't going to impact them, (in their opinion). This isn't my stance as I'm scheduled for my first shot on Friday but I have some people like this in my family so I know where they are coming from.
These same idiots, on my wife's side, are getting together at my mother in laws for Easter since her and her husband, in their 80's have been vaccinated. Last we heard 45 people will be in attendance. Easter is a big deal for her family and until last year they've always had large Easter gatherings. My wife and a couple of her siblings are livid while the rest have either had the virus, don't think it's that bad, or just don't give a damn. Good reason not to see a majority of my inlaws for the foreseeable future i guess.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
Daughter works at a retirement home. Workers that are vaccinated now get a special sticker on their badge and can wear a regular mask. Those that arent vaccinated have to continue wearing N95 mask + face shield.
