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drcross | 3 years ago
Yeah, all fine and good when you have informed consent. I took my life in my own hands by not getting vaccinated for covid after I looked at the mortality age graph, and knew I was fit and healthy and didn't need to worry.
Society at large, however, castigated me, threw me in the same box as a conspiracy theorist, denied me my rights. People acted goddamn stupidly about this subject. I'm angry about this and I won't forgive and I won't forget.
taolegal|3 years ago
Me neither. They attempted an unconstitutional mandate even after promising they wouldn't do it during the election.
I'll never forgive that or forget the social cruelty, scapegoating and illegal breach of limited governance.
I decided not to get the vaccine based on the data. Took me 2.5 years to finally get covid. It was 4 days of fever and feeling lame. I now have immunity based on the entire virus rather than a subunit of a protein that doesn't even exist anymore.
I also (rightly) assumed masks are not effective just observing the spread being very clearly seasonal. And that just being in open air would be far better than any mask could do. Completely disrupting normal life would cause far greater health consequences for general healthy people than covid itself. We ended up not saving the vulnerable and inflicting very real, unnecessary harm on the healthy - the worst of both worlds.
xracy|3 years ago
Where your decisions don't affect people around you, you're absolutely correct. But infectious diseases are not one of those cases.
drcross|3 years ago
The risk of myocarditis is an existential risk to my being, and one that only a fool would take.