The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(10-16-2021, 03:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Just get the inoculation. The risk of losing all freedom while sedated and hooked up to a ventilator, where one has a great chance of never surviving and even if surviving has a high chance of being messed up to the extent of becoming incarcerated in a nursing facility is just not worth it. It won't matter where you are on a ventilator.

I had a great uncle who was put on a ventilator following some medical treatment. He walked into the hospital but never walked after that. I think of a ventilator with horror after that from just over 20 years ago.

The chance of dying if one contracts COVID-19 is higher than that of getting killed from a rattlesnake bite.A rattlesnake usually gives a fair warning of its danger (the rattle), as it prefers to scare people off (it is in more danger of being trampled by our feet which compare in pressure to the hooves of cattle than we are in danger of being bitten) to biting. People infected with COVID-19 are nearly as dangerous to people not inoculated as a rattlesnake but give no warning.  

I did get unpleasant, delayed side-effects from the vaccine -- chest pains, shortness of breath, diarrhea, loss of sense of smell -- all symptoms of COVID-19. I figured that such made clear to me that

(1) I had done a good job avoiding COVID-19
(2) I would be in big trouble, if not dead, had I gotten or would I eventually get COVID-19, and
(3) that I was far safer in facing any existing strains of COVID-19.

I agree. I am very pro-vaccine, and anti-anti-vax. Lots of misinformation has been spread by people who have no idea what the vaccine is or how it works. I am certainly glad I didn't watch that rambling amateur video, but I'm glad that apparently I found out what her stance is. I am certainly very well-informed on this whole issue. I am opposed to the post-truth era in general, and especially to post-truth when it comes to saying that "freedom" and "choice" consists of putting other people at risk. Vaccine mandates are nothing new, and the covid vaccines are certainly the best ones ever created. 

Those interested in the truth about conspiracy theories in general and anti-vax in particular would do well to read my essay: https://philosopherswheel.com/thereasonf...acies.html

Among the many informative links at the bottom of this page is one explaining how the vaccine actually works, and what it is: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/underst...avaccines/

George Monbiot did a wonderful essay on how conspiracy theories like anti-vax are diverting some left-wingers: 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...xers-power