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Let's be clear on what we're comparing here. We're comparing a short term ban on provable lies about a cheap, safe and highly effective set of vaccines with a
by landryraccoon 5y ago
Let's be clear on what we're comparing here.
We're comparing a short term ban on provable lies about a cheap, safe and highly effective set of vaccines with a long term, permanent ban on all activities that could increase the risk of heart disease of cancer.
First, vaccines highly effective. Even if the draconian measures you proposed were implemented, would they even reduce the heart disease and cancer death totals? How much would the reduction be?
Second, vaccines are not an egregious imposition on your lifestyle. The cost is tiny, the time taken is tiny, the side effects are minor. I can't think of a single significant change in my life due to having been vaccinated, other than not worrying about dying due to Covid.
Finally, the ban on misinformation would be temporary, because the crisis will pass. Like wars, pandemics are temporary. Even before vaccination and modern medicine was invented, pandemics eventually end. When would the draconian measures you're proposing end? Heart disease and cancer are not communicable diseases. Your solution isn't a sustainable long term answer to anything.
Your comparison is frankly very dishonest and disingenuous. Wanting to reduce provably false misinformation about vaccines is nothing like the draconian, permanent measures you're proposing.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago>a short term ban We are on day 570 of 15 days to flatten the curve.
- landryraccoon 5y agoWhat does that mean? At no point anywhere in the United States was there a lockdown. We are on day 570 of doing what exactly? Edit: If you want the pandemic to end, universal vaccination is the fastest and safest way to do it with the least imposition on everyone's lives.
- bena 5y agoThe people who push that meme like to ignore that we, as a whole, very much did not do the things required to mitigate the spread of the disease. It's very much "we tried absolutely nothing and we're all out of ideas" situation.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoMost states were. Some still are.
- spectramax 5y ago> Finally, the ban on misinformation would be temporary, because the crisis will pass. Coronavirus is here to stay, don't get your hopes up: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-l...
- machiaweliczny 5y agoAccording to my wife (master in biology) it will be like flu due to mutations. I am happy we have mRNA and ML for quicker discovery of vacinnes but they shouldn't be forced IMO. Let the stupid die. Here we had many people dying as they weren't even admitted to hospital due to covid policies. One was 21 year pregnant woman. Just this one would offset 50 deaths of old and sick anyway.
- landryraccoon 5y agoPeople who can't get treatment at the hospital for car accidents or cancer are affected by covid patients flooding the hospital. https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2021/09/10/cullman-al-man-dies-hospitals-full-icus-turn-away-covid/8272754002/ https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2021/0... https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/569368-three-quarters-of-icu-beds-across-country-are-full https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/569368-three-quarters-... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/never-ending-nightmare-hospitals-where-icu-hospitalizations-stayed-high-n1280318 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/never-ending-nigh...