The vaccination question is simple:
Is the government allowed to dictate medical intervention?
@b6hydra my central issue is failure to apply the precautionary principle - quarantines (people coming into the country have to spend 2 weeks or so without contact) have been used for millennia and rare is the case where 2 weeks in a room causes long term health issues.
However, the vaccines are new technology ( I know mRNA have been used before but only on very sick people, never rolled out into the general populace.) I've often brought up the case of Thalidomide in these conversations - the word for word response seems to be "times have moved on from then"
Indeed, our medical tech has become considerably more complicated - our means of communication more manipulable.
That several repurposed drugs have been suppressed is sufficient for me to disregard all health authorities. Lord knows they've fucked up plenty of times in the past.
@b6hydra The responses to my question have all been the same, what bothers me is the varying degrees of writhing it takes to get that hard no.
To be frank, if I'd been asked the same question a year a go I would've been on of the prime writhers.
Life comes at you quick.
