Quote from: Kradie on December 07, 2020, 11:31 AM
I respect that you are ''educated'' Chicken, but perhaps you shouldn't find alternative opinions and sources as irrefutable. Nothing wrong in an open discussion about things you may not feel comfortable in.
If elderly & challenged people are the culprit of covid death, perhaps the authority should restrict their access to society rather than the healthy one.
This is the whole social dilemma of COVID and the decisions that governments decide to take. Look at Sweden with no lockdown, vs Norway, Denmark and Finland. The deaths per capita in Sweden is one of the highest due to COVID.
You are right though that people can decide to take no risks and therefore some countries may enforce no restrictions. You won't please everyone. It's also unfair to lock the elderly and vulnerable away and never let them see the light of day, but that does mean its unfair to restrict the masses and enforce having social distancing restrictions on others? There is no right answer and just our different sociological and political beliefs.
At the end of the day, this thread was about taking the vaccine or not, which is a personal choice and the UK government isn't forcing this on people. As bloopy pointed out anti-vaxers are also causing issues with children getting measles and deaths associated with this, anti-vaxing was happening before COVID, but the issue for me is the misinformation and propaganda that social media and news sites spread.
From a safety perspective, these vaccines will be very safe, and taking them should be encouraged. Not just to protect yourself, but also to hopefully protect others, although currently no evidence on this but only time will tell.
This whole pandemic I wished I lived in NZ where the rules were much stricter and it resulted in their country being covid free and living a normal life. Unfortunately the UK is so densely populated and has so much air traffic that we could never do a lockdown like NZ did and stop people coming into the country.
My personal beliefs are mother nature is hitting back at humans for overpopulating the world, climate change is a bigger issue and we have a massive population crisis. Maybe the world needs more disease and death to stop us destroying this plant beyond the point of repair? However we should look to protect lives and educate ourselves to limit our population growth (fewer families having fewer children) and use noncarbon energy sources to slow global warming. Go vegan and stop hoarding animals together so closely to allow for these type of viruses to evolve. Farming isn't natural when you think about it.
ps. I'm not vegan but realize the meat trade is causing issues.