Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by feikname 1653 days ago
> Force people into draconian measures that won't stop infection and violate their rights.

It won't stop infection. But it greatly reduces that rate and, above all, your risk of death and the strength of the disease in general in case you do catch it.

> Convince them that it's necessary to stop the pandemic without giving any arguments.

The argument should be very clear: vaccines are a known and easy way to make the virus a non-threat, or a small one at that.

To that end, you can see the numbers for yourself after vaccination started[1] and how greatly the number of deaths and cases has reduced.

[1] see for example Brazil since June till now: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil/

> Have them defend your measures in public forums and feel very smart.

Given this is a place where IT Big Corp and govts. are constantly critized, I don't think anyone here is defending this as an WHO or any institution ass kisser