Will you get vaccinated against COVID once it's available?

[packs]

Pretty draconian view of society and your place in it. Would you slow down for someone crossing a street after the light turns green? Or did they make a decision they'll have to live with now?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

Pretty draconian view of society and your place in it. Would you slow down for someone crossing a street after the light turns green? Or did they make a decision they'll have to live with now?

To be expected, I am afraid, of younger people. All about themselves.

[G1911]

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[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

Yep, not taking a vaccine leads to us youth committing vehicular homicide. Totally reasonable perspective. Stellar argument.

For a smart guy you are completely missing his point.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

To be expected, I am afraid, of younger people. All about themselves.

So if we don't want the vaccine, we should just take it anyway? For the sake of others?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

So if we don't want the vaccine, we should just take it anyway? For the sake of others?

I think it's a factor that should have a place in the thought process, I would not force anyone to do anything.
Earlier in the pandemic it pissed me off, for example, that many young people couldn't even give up their parties for the sake of contributing to protecting the rest of us. The nature of this disease is that the young aren't very much at risk but the older are. But the young can expose the old, particularly given asymptomatic transmission. To me that suggests the young bear some responsibility to society.

[G1911]

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[packs]

Originally Posted by G1911

Yes, me not taking an experimental drug means I am likely to commit homicide. This kind of bullshit is exactly why I have 0 interest in participating in this madness. This is the dumbest thing I have read this week.

I was just distilling what you said to it's fundamentals, which is you make your decision for you and that's how it is for everyone else.

[G1911]

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[packs]

Haha that's exactly what I said. It doesn't matter if your decision poses a risk to me because you made it and that's how it is.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by packs

Haha that's exactly what I said. It doesn't matter if your decision poses a risk to me because you made it and that's how it is.

If you are worried, get vaccinated. What risk do I possibly pose to you? Are you under the belief that your vaccine only works if I am also vaccinated?

[packs]

The risk has been explained. I don't have a problem with someone not wanting to get the vaccine. But I do have a problem with that person standing next to me without a mask on. If you mask up, no issue.