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Mandatory vaccinations helped to eradicate smallpox. And yes, social media providers have to get their act together if they want to do business in Europe.

• trompetenaccoun 5y ago
  Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS, you don't understand how coronaviruses work. If it were that easy we'd already have eradicated a whole bunch of viruses. Any year now the flu is going to be eradicated, just gotta vax more. /s
  • usrbinbash 5y ago
    > Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS Did I say it it would? Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past. Also, COVID and SARS are two different diseases, caused by different Coronaviridae. Vaccination makes COVID less likely to spread through the population, and can prevent a severe course of the illness.
    • trompetenaccoun 5y ago
      Oh and COVID means COronaVirus Disease. SARS is a coronavirus, both of them are coronaviruses.
    • trompetenaccoun 5y ago
      >Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past. So how is it relevant to this conversation, which isn't about smallpox and where mandatory vaccination won't help? SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both SARS, it's not a coincidence they're named such. The media simply called the first one 'SARS' when there wasn't a second one yet. Then they labeled the new one "coronavirus". You can see even the people reporting on this are confused.
      • usrbinbash 5y ago
        > So how is it relevant to this conversation It shows that mandatory vaccination works in fighting infectious diseases. Whether that results in the eradication of the disease, or getting it under control to a degree that we no longer have to have lockdowns, and/or masks in public transports, is irrelevant.