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> against a very dangerous disease Ebola or smallpox are very dangerous disease. COVID has much lower negative impact on lives/health, it is more like flu or r
by effie 5y ago
> against a very dangerous disease
Ebola or smallpox are very dangerous disease. COVID has much lower negative impact on lives/health, it is more like flu or risk of stroke, very dangerous only for specific subpopulations, mostly old / unhealthy people with preexisting conditions.
- ajross 5y agoEbola spreads poorly and never achieved anything larger than a regional outbreak (but yes, it's very dangerous). Smallpox is extinct. Covid is a pandemic, literally killing millions of people. You don't think that's relevant to a discussion about vaccination policy? BTW: that "smallpox" idea you threw out? Give you two guesses as to how it was eradicated.
- effie 5y agoYou said it is very dangerous, but I say it is not in that category. It is very dangerous to specific subpopulations, that's it.
- ajross 5y agoIt is "very dangerous" in that it's killing millions of people and will probably kill millions more if we don't get people to take their vaccines. Better? Again, imagine if people successfully deployed your logic against the smallpox vaccine. We'd still be getting sick with smallpox.
- effie 5y agoYes that's slightly better. However millions may still die even with vaccinations, because most of the world does not have access to them and they don't have adequate health care. Also, with time as mutations occur, vaccines will get less efficient. You got confused with the smallpox. I mentioned smallpox as an example of what COVID isn't. Not every disease warrants mass vaccination, and this depends also on efficacy of the vaccine. COVID may warrant it for specific subpopulations. But we don't have good enough vaccines yet to eradicate COVID. "Getting rid of COVID via vaccines", "vaccines is the only way" is just fantasy/propaganda tactic to increase vaccinations.
- eptcyka 5y agoThe long lasting side effects of Covid are just as if not more underresearched than the vaccines.
- effie 5y agoThey are not underresearched, they are unknown because the long term has to pass first and then it can be researched.
- ub99 5y ago“Unhealthy people” is a very large group. For example, obesity is considered an unhealthy state. 42.5% of the US population is obese.
- effie 5y agoYes technically you are correct, but COVID does not care about technical definition of obesity. Obese is a very general term, borderline obese/overweight person with otherwise healthy body has much better chances than someone with morbid obesity or diabetes or heart/vascular condition.
- ub99 5y agoSure, I agree that obesity is not a great indicator. I just used it to illustrate that an unhealthy population can be very large. Another example: 6.5% of Americans are morbidly obese, which I would guess can have an effect on the severity of Covid symptoms. That’s already 20 million people. And that’s just one factor. How many people have heart problems, lung problems, etc?
- effie 5y agoYes, it's still a big part of the population. I think getting vaccinated makes a lot of sense in that group, but of course even there, it has to be informed personal decision.
- landemva 5y agoIf obesity is a contributing problem, I wonder if there could be a non-vaccine solution to obesity? Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the quantity and type of calories consumed. People are free to eat themselves into metabolic destruction just as people are free to partake or not partake in the emergency use authorization vaccine experiments.
- ub99 5y agoPeople are free to partake or not partake… no one is forcing people to get vaccinated, there is always an alternative. A restaurant is requiring patrons to be vaccinated? Don’t go there if you are not. Your job is requiring prove of vaccination? Quit the job.