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Originally Posted by kevman
Thank you!
I'm also sick and tired of people trying to slide in little back door insults to those that are not getting the shot. I find it funny that the two sides of the debate appear to be:
1) The holier-than-though crowd that is getting the shot and feels they have to convince the world to get it.
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2) The I'm not getting the shot and don't really care if you do or not crowd.
Why does the pro-shot crowd feel that they have to force their opinions on others? I'm not getting the shot, I have my reasons and honestly I don't care if they agree with them because everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This does not make me stupid or irresponsible, this simply means I have a different opinion then they do...
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I'm pretty sure the back-handed insults are because a lot of people do feel that people refusing to get the shot is both irresponsible and, shall we say, unwise.
Irresponsible, because the idea is to get that magic 'herd immunity' which results from having a very high proportion of the population immunized. If we don't get a high enough proportion immunized, then everybody is at higher risk, because the virus continues to circulate more widely through the unvaccinated segment of the population. In that sense you are putting more people at risk than just yourself. It's kind of like the difference between not wearing a seat-belt and driving drunk. I think you cauld at least make some argument that the first is putting only you at risk, but the second puts everyone on the road at risk and that is irresponsible.
As for unwise, it ties in to the above, but also, the fact is that there are decades worth medical and scientific data regarding the efficacy and side effects of vaccines, and yet people who are completely unqualified seem to be willing to make grandiose statements about the downsides of vaccines. Unless you're a conspiracy theorist, I think it makes sense to to go with the preponderance of evidence. Doing otherwise is 'unwise'.