The dictatorship you wish to live under is available in other countries, don’t push you’re bs on us.
My freedom, and every one else’s is a helluva lot more important than your need to have the government in control of everything. Frickin sheep man, going to be the death of our society.
Vaccinated and still wear a mask, just in case. I’d feel like horrible if I spread this disease to someone else and there were measures I could have taken to avoid doing so.
On an aside, can’t see how people complain about wearing a piece of cloth over your face.
Just finishing the cooldown after my 2nd shot. Was a little behind the curve because I didn’t check any of the high-priority boxes, but a relief to have it done.
I’m eager to ditch my mask, but it looks like we still haven’t quite reached herd immunity here yet so normality will have to wait a little longer.
Your point if valid, however are you aware there are some very promient viruloligist who beleive we as a whole are going about this all wrong. That mass imunization is simply going to cause to many varients to contain. At the end of the day we must all make our own decision.
Hot off the press: vaccines and masks do nothing.
I got both my vaccines as soon as I was eligible for each. Been fully vaccinated for 3 weeks and living unmasked in Alberta since (although I still wear it in busy stories like Grocery, etc).
Incorrect, deaths were up 15.9% in 2020, driven largely by COVID.
COVID was the third leading cause of death in the US last year, behind heart disease and cancer. We have highly effective vaccines for it, unlike for the top 2, so focusing on COVID is the most effective way to reduce deaths currently.
“In 2019, a total of 2,854,838 resident deaths were registered in the United States…”
“In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States…”
According to CDC data, deaths went up in 2020. Do you have a link showing deaths stayed the same?
It trips me out that people are still resistant to getting vaccinated assuming they have no medical issues that prevent it.
It’s pretty much inevitable that everyone in the US is going to get Delta at this point, and you’re going to be much worse off catching it unvaccinated.
Are so many just unaware of the Delta spread?
I’ve been pretty convinced about vaccines since around 1955 because after we got the vaccine I stopped seeing my friends die or disappear into iron lung machines. It was a tough time to be five years old.
I got the 1st shot months ago but I haven’t gotten around to getting the 2nd one yet. Probably get it in a couple weeks.
I mean, probably somewhere more than nothing. I’m of the thought that all the mask wearing over the fall and winter of 2020 kept the instances of flu down, cause it sure was a lot less than previous flu seasons.
But holy duckballs don’t get us started on the garbage testing protocols we’ve had or the mixed messages from every single entity that has had the slightest input in this poopshow .
Have you ever seen a post that painted such a vibrant picture of someone’s education?
I live in Florida so i delayed getting the vaccine so all the old people and people who aren’t lucky enough to work from home could get it first. Then i heard people were just refusing it and vaccines were going bad so i got mine. People are dumb shrug
You should be curious about the relationship between wow gamers and chocolate ice cream.
Science is good. Trusting the science is not. Large amounts of publications are either completely falsifiable or purposefully misleading because there are financial or political incentives at play, as well as plain old incompetence and hurried work. Censoring of data doesn’t exactly engender trust in what we’re being told, nor does blocking investigations that run counter to the narrative by denying funding or refusing publication (Nature and the Lancet are notorious for being corrupt).
In addition, most scientists are too busy with their own work to carefully check others’. History is replete with “99% of scientists agree that…” and the 1% who didn’t were censored, denied tenure, ridiculed by the public and the powers that be, but turned out to be correct.
Trust the Science. All Hail the Mighty Infallible Self-Correcting Process. Its Incorruptible.
I’m protected against polio and a few other scary ones. At least I think I am as I’ve never checked that the promised antibodies are there.
If Covid and other notable diseases somehow were not able to be spread past yourself, I’d be perfectly fine with letting whatever nasty you choose to not protect yourself from eventually getting you.
And yet we do know that roughly 10% of people who contract COVID will continue to suffer from debilitating “long COVID” symptoms for weeks, months, or longer. So when given the option of a vaccine, which so far as shown no long term side-effects, or a virus that does show long term side effects, I’ll bet on the vaccine.
Even when they state this in their post:
Sounds like an obvious joke to me.
One thing this pandemic also made clear is how many bad parents there are out there, especially the ones that say ‘I should’ve got him/her vaccinated’ after their kid ends up in the hospital with severe complications.