| > I was required to take vaccines too, so what? What do you mean, “so what?” Isn’t this exactly what you’ve been complaining about? > We are talking about a vaccine that doesn't even prevent infection. No vaccine against any disease guarantees that in any specific individual. Yet at a population level, all the various COVID vaccines which were validated by the trials all reduce symptomatic infection, and the one I took in particular definitely reduces the risk of non-symptomatic infection. > A vaccine that requires 2 doses ( apparently now a 3rd dose is coming in ) Commonplace. I’ve had several like that; I’d have to look up which disease they were against. Also, how many doses you need for COVID depends on which of the half-dozen completely different vaccines you’ve been given. > for a questionable immunity in effectiveness False, assuming you’re using the word “questionable” in anything other than the sense in which scientists call gravity a “theory”. > and lifespan. Common in vaccines, because viruses mutate. Literally why influenza vaccines only last one year. > A worldwide campaign for vaccination, So like smallpox? And the only reason yellow fever (and polio, diphtheria, rubella, etc.) isn’t endemic in (e.g. the USA) are the various vaccine campaigns. > followed by pressure and mandating that a number of public places and businesses only vaccinated people to be, Quite a lot of childhood vaccines are “your child has the vaccine or they are not allowed to school”. > along with a tracker or pass being checked when visitors go to a restaurant, Those were put in before the vaccine, so as to help prevent the spread. They go away when enough people are vaccinated — or get ill — to create population immunity. > those are radical measures and a threat to individual freedom. Nothing you’ve listed is radical, and none of it is a threat. What is a threat to individual freedom is that immunodeficient people have to hide in their homes because too many other people think vaccination is just a personal choice. Plausibly also when the same get ill and fill up hospital beds so that people with non-pandemic illnesses and injuries can’t get treated. As the saying goes: “your freedom to swing your fist stops with my nose“. |