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I disagree, statistics demonstrated that the death number largely decreased among vaccinated. As such to me "forcing" vaccination is legit if it saves more peo

by giamma 4y ago

I disagree, statistics demonstrated that the death number largely decreased among vaccinated. As such to me "forcing" vaccination is legit if it saves more people than it harms, it's for the greater good. Personally I don't want to risk my life because my neighbour is not vaccinated, but on the other hand no one is preventing my neighbour from relocating to an isolated hut on the top of a mountain and avoid any contact with anyone if he/she does not want to get vaccinated. But as long as my neighbour wants to live in a city then he must comply with the decisions of the majority of people, who, at least in my country, rushed to get vaccinated as soon as possible. It's the same with politics: sometimes politicians are elected which I don't like, so I can either accept the decision of majority of electors and live with that, or I can move to another place. What I can't do is decide that I refuse to comply with a law because it was enacted by a government that I don't like or didn't vote.

base698 4y ago
I don't really understand this level of risk aversion. I'm probably old for hacker news, early 40s and my infection fatality rate is somewhere around 5 to 12 in 100k. I've got many hobbies and lifestyle choices that expose me to greater risk. Even at 80 years old the risk of covid at worst is basically no different than wingsuit base jumping hard for a season. Yes of course if you can lower your 5% risk of death by all means the vaccine is worth it. Somewhere between 50 and 80 is a gray area.
- scarface74 4y ago
  There is not only death, there is “severe illness”.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  I played a lot of DND. 1 out of 20 odds come up more often than you naturally expect.
  - base698 4y ago
    > Yes of course if you can lower your 5% risk of death by all means the vaccine is worth it.
- ridgered4 4y ago
  I wasn't so much worried about death as I was about being crippled with long covid and having to deal with the medical system, that would probably not believe me for help.

by giamma 4y ago

base698 4y ago

I don't really understand this level of risk aversion. I'm probably old for hacker news, early 40s and my infection fatality rate is somewhere around 5 to 12 in 100k. I've got many hobbies and lifestyle choices that expose me to greater risk. Even at 80 years old the risk of covid at worst is basically no different than wingsuit base jumping hard for a season. Yes of course if you can lower your 5% risk of death by all means the vaccine is worth it. Somewhere between 50 and 80 is a gray area.

scarface74 4y ago
There is not only death, there is “severe illness”.
mrguyorama 4y ago
I played a lot of DND. 1 out of 20 odds come up more often than you naturally expect.
- base698 4y ago
  > Yes of course if you can lower your 5% risk of death by all means the vaccine is worth it.
ridgered4 4y ago
I wasn't so much worried about death as I was about being crippled with long covid and having to deal with the medical system, that would probably not believe me for help.