I strongly dislike posting about politics other than software related stuff here but this is starting to really freak me out.

I'm not getting vaccinated. I had good arguments against it, there's the lack of long term data, the fact that it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than other vaccines for a disease that quite frankly is not very deadly for people my age. There's the social issues surrounding it.

But now people are talking about forcing it on each other. For that reason alone I'll refuse it.

I'll die on this hill, don't push me.

@swiley how deadly it is for people your age is irrelevant, the point of the vaccine is to eradicate the virus, so either most people take it or it's pointless. It's a question of whether you want to take your chances with the virus or the vaccine, which according to you, is a chance of some unknown long term side effects on you versus the chance of your neighbor or relative, who's old, a smoker or has immune system problems or something else along those lines, dying in the short term, keeping in mind that most people don't give a flying fuck about long term side effects of anything, unless of course it's some hot politically charged news.

@namark If the vaccine worked weather I took it or not would be irrelevant.
Even if you were right (you're not) it's *absolutely* unacceptable to force drugs on people.

@swiley I don't care for your political rhetoric, but thank you for enlighening me that vaccines are magic potions of immunity, that do not require wide spread use, and that immunity is just a black and white, yes or no question, impervious to circumstance or time.

@namark In addition, many people argue that the vaccines make the covid situation *worse* because of the evolutionary pressure it puts in the virus. This is why we've seen so many variants this year and not last year.