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1. Most of the developing world will never be vaccinated 2. Even if it will they will not get the "updated dose" in time 3. Rollout of boosters is not proportio

1. Most of the developing world will never be vaccinated 2. Even if it will they will not get the "updated dose" in time 3. Rollout of boosters is not proportional. I still cant get my 3rd dose in Europe even when I asked for it (i am just 1 week short for 6 months) 4. Not all vaccines are treated the same. It feels like we will live in this dystopian neo-fascist world where you have no right for freedom of movement and right to privacy anymore for a while. If I knew the Western world would screw this much I would have relocated to China where I can at least get some benefit from all these ridiculous rules.

xiphias2 5y ago
Have you tried going to Romania? You can often just tell that you don't have a shot yet and they will give you one, there's so much vaccine hesistancy there (at least that's my plan for my parents who only got 3 shots so far in Hungary).
Trasmatta 5y ago
> I would have relocated to China where I can at least get some benefit from all these ridiculous rules What are those benefits?
- graeme 5y ago
  Pretty normal life most of the time. Big difference between “covid zero” and “periods of low covid” In the former life is like 2019 most of the time. (A lot of places pretend they’re like 2019 but it isn’t the same. You see the effects in hospitals)
2-718-281-828 5y ago
From a somewhat unemotional perspective I'd argue this disease comes with quite a silver lining - _especially_ for developing countries. Old and sick people will die - which releases social and financial burden. While adults and healthy folks up to an age of 50 will be mostly fine. Not being vaccinated just speeds up the process until reaching an endemic state. Also people in developing countries have less issues with obesity which is one of the major comorbidities in the first world. We (westerns) on the other hand seem to go nuts over small inconveniences ripping the social fibres apart. The west focuses too much on those X people have died of covid imo. A death is a singular not a plural experience. X people dying means X people individually experiencing dying - we all die eventually - and we all have to cope with deaths of close ones. That's a fact of life. For one person dying - the process is not better or worse if more or less people are virtually dying chronologically close by or of a similar cause. X people dying is a political and economic quantity - and many people dying especially old and weak ones is not necessarily economically, politically and two weeks later socially a bad thing. So, Africa and Asia will do pretty well compared to us.

xiphias2 5y ago

Have you tried going to Romania? You can often just tell that you don't have a shot yet and they will give you one, there's so much vaccine hesistancy there (at least that's my plan for my parents who only got 3 shots so far in Hungary).

Trasmatta 5y ago

> I would have relocated to China where I can at least get some benefit from all these ridiculous rules What are those benefits?

graeme 5y ago
Pretty normal life most of the time. Big difference between “covid zero” and “periods of low covid” In the former life is like 2019 most of the time. (A lot of places pretend they’re like 2019 but it isn’t the same. You see the effects in hospitals)

2-718-281-828 5y ago

From a somewhat unemotional perspective I'd argue this disease comes with quite a silver lining - _especially_ for developing countries. Old and sick people will die - which releases social and financial burden. While adults and healthy folks up to an age of 50 will be mostly fine. Not being vaccinated just speeds up the process until reaching an endemic state. Also people in developing countries have less issues with obesity which is one of the major comorbidities in the first world. We (westerns) on the other hand seem to go nuts over small inconveniences ripping the social fibres apart. The west focuses too much on those X people have died of covid imo. A death is a singular not a plural experience. X people dying means X people individually experiencing dying - we all die eventually - and we all have to cope with deaths of close ones. That's a fact of life. For one person dying - the process is not better or worse if more or less people are virtually dying chronologically close by or of a similar cause. X people dying is a political and economic quantity - and many people dying especially old and weak ones is not necessarily economically, politically and two weeks later socially a bad thing. So, Africa and Asia will do pretty well compared to us.