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The data shows the opposite: the places with vaccine mandates achieved lower vaccination rates among elderly (most of Europe) than places without them (UK). Th
by NoPie 4y ago
The data shows the opposite: the places with vaccine mandates achieved lower vaccination rates among elderly (most of Europe) than places without them (UK).
The data shows that the greatest benefit from vaccination was to elderly and risk groups and not to healthy young people. Vaccine mandates increased vaccine uptake in less-at-risk groups but did not help to ensure vaccination of elderly people.
Third issue is that vaccination did not prevent spread. Even in Canada the data shows that at the end of 2021 covid spread equally among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. Vaccination was good for personal benefit and should have been popularised as such but it didn't meaningfully limit the spread and the restrictions on unvaccinated were not justified.
- nikau 4y agoYour commentary is very disingenuous, the benefit of vaccination is reducing the impact of the virus and avoiding overload of the health system. 10 unvaccinated people needing ICU with covid vs 10 people staying home with a covid headache are very different things.
- throwoutway 4y agoDisingenuous is a hard thing to say when governments kept changing the goal posts, and the poster you were responding to talked about multiple governments. Either way, discrimination is wrong. And if we’re following the science, then those who recovered from Covid didn’t need to be vaccinated, so discriminating against them isn’t scientific. It’s a prejudice
- NoPie 4y agoI don't think that vaccine mandates had a significant impact on hospitalization rates. The most people getting hospitalized will be elderly. I already mentioned that vaccine mandates did not significantly increased vaccinate uptake among them. Canada and Australia received high vaccination rates among elderly but so did the UK, so there was no need to push for vaccine mandates. China which is practically a totalitarian country also had low vaccination rates among elderly.