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by peakaboo 1803 days ago
I agree about 5g but being against the new vaccines makes a lot of sense. Lots of evidence to support the serious side effects. People are adviced to not exercise after taking the vaccine due to deadly blood clots forming.
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I'm talking about the "general purpose" anti-vaxxers that were around before COVID and are responsible for hundreds of children dead around the world from preventable diseases like measles.

But COVID vaccines are also much safer than the disease they prevent.

Here in Australia is a perfect example of vaccine hesitancy versus hard reality.

For months on end we had close to zero cases in most states, people could do pretty much whatever with minimal restrictions. Every once in a while some returning traveller would cause a small outbreak, a few people might wind up in hospital, but we had zero cases on intubators, and zero deaths for ages.

There were protests in the street against COVID vaccines, which aren't mandatory here, and still aren't available for half the population. I have two acquaintances and a close relative that are refusing vaccination. The relative in particular is in an extremely high-risk category for serious COVID complications but is still unprotected.

Their logic was this: something like 3 people have died from the vaccines, and 0 from COVID. Hence, the vaccine is clearly much more dangerous than COVID.

We now have a relatively tiny(!) outbreak of just over a thousand cases that has sent three states into lockdowns, and a stage-4 lockdown of our most populous city.

These mere 1,100 cases have already killed 3 people, but those 3 vaccine deaths were from 10 million doses!

So the anti-vaxxer logic is: We prefer never-ending ruinous lockdowns and 10,000x more deaths because taking personal action is too scary if it has any risk of death associated with it. In other words, they got a headache when they heard about the Trolley Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

PS: All three of those people drive like maniacs.