No, the vaccine is fairly detrimental to the spread of COVID. Overwhelmingly, the numbers of people in Hospitals are unvaxxed. In BC, the last report I saw fo

No, the vaccine is fairly detrimental to the spread of COVID. Overwhelmingly, the numbers of people in Hospitals are unvaxxed. In BC, the last report I saw for a region had almost 100% of people below 50 in intensive care unvaxxed, almost the same numbers for seniors. Rates of spread are actually coming down even while business activity expands, vaccines are a potent part of this. Not perfect, but a major component. So again: COVID is a community problem, less so an individual one. 'Stopping the Dominos' from dropping is much better than trying to lift all the dominos up after they fell with drugs. "So taking preventative measures because it is forced down their throats seems hostile." It's not hostile to the 80-90% of people in most advanced nations who have basic civil maturity. It's a mild distraction with obvious individual and group benefits, to the point where I have a hard time understanding lack of participation (yes, it's very easy to understand hesitancy and hostility to being required to do something, but not to the level where people actually would avoid doing something obviously beneficial). I remember when smoking was banned indoors, I get that people were a begrudged, but I think in reality most people 'got it'.