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A: non-immune people this 18-year comes in contact with later
by aj3 5y ago
A: non-immune people this 18-year comes in contact with later
- logifail 5y agoPublic health bodies will struggle to convince healthy young people to take a vaccine that gives them very little direct benefit. "Children's risk of severe disease from Covid is tiny, deaths are extremely rare and have only occurred in UK children with profound underlying and life-limiting conditions. The direct benefits to them of vaccination would be low."[0] [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57496074 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57496074
- aj3 5y agowe live in society
- logifail 5y ago> we live in society Insert quote from Margaret Thatcher from 1987?[0] More seriously, there is no [longer] one approved way to live, thank goodness. We rightly demand that larger / mainstream groups respect minorities. At what point is it OK to stop listening or respecting minority views, and who gets to decide that? [0] "you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-quotes https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-th...
- CRConrad 5y agoIron Mags is dead. Too bad so much of the stupid shit she said lives on.
- atoav 5y agoI would take a vaccine to protect my grandmother. I would even take a vaccine to protect some abstract person with a broken immune system whom I never met and probably never will. I would even do that if the vaccine wouldn't help me (which it does). It is called empathy and caring for each other.