serious question for anyone pro-vaccines: what’s your problem with people choosing to not get vaccinated?

@kino I am neither anti-vaxer nor pro-vaxer when it comes to covid. Being new technology I feel its reasonable for people to be cautious, but at the same time there are no significant risks that have popped up.

That said I think the general issue with it is quite clear. If you are the only one vaccinated out of a crowd you are safer than if you werent vaccinated at all, but you are at higher risk than if the entire crowd is vaccinated. So the issue in their minds, and a valid one, is that your choice is increasing their risk.

@freemo wdym by "your choice is increasing their risk"?

@kino Vaccines increase protection, but they dont make you immune. Others who arent vaccinated have significantly high viral loads and thus are more capable of spreading the disease. So by others not being vaccinated it increases the risk of everyone, including those vaccinated.

@freemo @kino people who are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms are more likely to spread the disease (going to work/the shops/restaurants etc) than people with more severe symptoms.

It's commonly suggested that the vaccines reduce the chance of deaths and serious illness. Assuming this is true (it might not be, but let's work with the premise), vaccinated people are more likely to spread the disease (as they won't be seriously ill/bed ridden).
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So you think we should let people almost die because then they will stay home?

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@freemo @kino
You made a false descriptive statement.

I corrected the false descriptive statement.

You changed the topic to a prescriptive one.

Don't try and change the topic from a descriptive one to a prescriptive one like that. It's very obvious.
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