[moksly]

If you want to be part of society you have to wear pants and you have to get vaccinated. If you can’t do those things then you can go somewhere else.

Or at least pay for your own covid test that clears you for a visit into society for 24 hours.

We can’t be burdened by the village idiot forever.

[bingohbangoh]

wearing pants != getting vaccinated, not in the slightest.

Stop comparing the two.

We've been wearing pants for several centuries now, this vaccine is new. The mRNA vaccines are not the same as past vaccines in either their immediate effect (I was zonked out for three days) or in their long-term effects (which, despite how safe they seem so far are simply not tested long term).

I say this as somebody who is fully vaccinated (Johnson & Johnson).

[PaulDavisThe1st]

"wearing pants" is, i believe, an allusion to "engage in adult social behavior", not a literal exhortation to cover one's legs.

the vaccine technology is both new and old. most vaccines come with various levels of immediate side effects, and anecdotally, the COVID-19 ones seems to be at least as safe in this regard as any other vaccines that have been administered to hundreds of millions of people. It is true that the long term effects are unknown, and there could be some. However, most immunologists seem to be of the consensus that most after-effects from vaccines take place within a fairly narrow window, which we are now firmly out of for very large numbers of people. That doesn't rule out some hitherto unknown and unforeseen long side effect, but it does make it rather unlikely.

Consequently, taking the vaccine is reasonably considered "adult social behavior" at this point, and is therefore analogous to "wearing pants".