[kmos17]

If you were truly old fashioned you would remember how everyone took their polio shot and we eradicated that disease.

The vaccine is not about your supposed 99% chance of survival, it is about stopping the spread of a disease that has killed 740k in the US and counting.

The real disease is the freedom fundamentalism, or if we are really going to call it what it is: self centered selfishness, the complete breakdown of any sense of civic duty from the richest most entitled society on earth.

[charbonneau2]

I think both you & GP share many similarities, the main difference being your perceived risk of COVID-19.

GP acknowledges the disease but concludes that, due to the high chance of survival, mandates are unwarranted.

You acknowledge the 99% chance of survival but conclude that, due to the high (and still growing) number of deaths, civic duty is needed.

At which point would GP perceive "people's freedom" as "self centered selfishness"?

At which point would you perceive "civic duty" as "shameless propaganda"?

[kmos17]

The break point is somewhere above 100k excess deaths per year if we want to use the “it’s just like a very bad flu” argument, we are way past that.

So many deaths that could easily be avoided, so much economic pain that could easily be avoided too. Just look at the results in PR that has the highest vaccination rates in the nation. Vaccination works, it stops the spread, it’s not propaganda.