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Vaccines don't work on a "everybody makes their own choice" basis. It's a basic medical science fact that you need a large enough population to take them to mak

Vaccines don't work on a "everybody makes their own choice" basis. It's a basic medical science fact that you need a large enough population to take them to make a difference, and for the people who legitimately cannot take a vaccine, it is in society's interest to help them stay safe and healthy by vaccinating most people. >Also, I think the idea that we have all this healthcare it’s super expensive yet people aren’t really getting healthier Americans don't "have all this healthcare". Americans avoid going to the doctors because they cannot afford it. Other countries pay dramatically less for healthcare and get better results. Even just prescriptions in the US is absurd. People aren't taking medicine they need because a pill or injection that was invented 60 years ago and costs less than a penny a dose is sold for hundreds of dollars a week.

daft_pink 1y ago
>Vaccines don’t work on a “everybody makes their own choice” basis. In my experience they do work exactly that way, you take a vaccine and then you are far less likely to get the disease. It’s true that you cannot reach herd imunity or reduce the spread until you get a large enough population. I’m still think it’s a choice thing though. >A pill or injection that was invented 60 years ago and costs less than a penny a dose is sold for hundreds of dollar a week. Currently, I take 3 different generics popular generics that cost a few bucks a month. I could get it covered under my insurance, but I prefer to just pay cash without insurance to buy in larger quantities direct from Amazon as it works out to be about the same, but I don’t have to manage the inventory. I also take a semiglutide for weight loss, which costs thousands upon thousands a year that insurance brings down to $25 a month. But it wasn’t invented 60 years ago. Someday it will probably be available extremely cheap though. I think most senior citizens would agree that most common medications that make it on the generic list really don’t cost much in the United States.
- croes 1y ago
  There are people who can't take vaccines because if medical conditions, that's why we need herd immunity, not to mention the possibility to eradicate a disease completely like the smallpox. There is a point where the your personal choice affects thousand upto millions negatively. At that point it stopps to be a perosnal choice.
- fragmede 1y ago
  > In my experience they do work exactly that way, you take a vaccine and then you are far less likely to get the disease. It’s true that you cannot reach herd imunity or reduce the spread until you get a large enough population The problem is there are some people who have real actual reasons they can't take the vaccine. They need the population to reach herd immunity for them to be protected. If other people opt out and there's no herd immunity, they die.

daft_pink 1y ago

>Vaccines don’t work on a “everybody makes their own choice” basis. In my experience they do work exactly that way, you take a vaccine and then you are far less likely to get the disease. It’s true that you cannot reach herd imunity or reduce the spread until you get a large enough population. I’m still think it’s a choice thing though. >A pill or injection that was invented 60 years ago and costs less than a penny a dose is sold for hundreds of dollar a week. Currently, I take 3 different generics popular generics that cost a few bucks a month. I could get it covered under my insurance, but I prefer to just pay cash without insurance to buy in larger quantities direct from Amazon as it works out to be about the same, but I don’t have to manage the inventory. I also take a semiglutide for weight loss, which costs thousands upon thousands a year that insurance brings down to $25 a month. But it wasn’t invented 60 years ago. Someday it will probably be available extremely cheap though. I think most senior citizens would agree that most common medications that make it on the generic list really don’t cost much in the United States.

croes 1y ago
There are people who can't take vaccines because if medical conditions, that's why we need herd immunity, not to mention the possibility to eradicate a disease completely like the smallpox. There is a point where the your personal choice affects thousand upto millions negatively. At that point it stopps to be a perosnal choice.
fragmede 1y ago
> In my experience they do work exactly that way, you take a vaccine and then you are far less likely to get the disease. It’s true that you cannot reach herd imunity or reduce the spread until you get a large enough population The problem is there are some people who have real actual reasons they can't take the vaccine. They need the population to reach herd immunity for them to be protected. If other people opt out and there's no herd immunity, they die.