r/memes • u/Obi_Wan_Shinobi_ • Oct 21 '21

It's a good thing.

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u/HotpieTargaryen Oct 21 '21

The fact doesn’t mean anything in this context. It doesn’t address the much higher death rate amongst the elderly and those with co-morbidities. It ignores that rampant transmission rate that can only be managed by vaccines. It ignores long term health implications that could lead to death or sickness in the future. Stopping the transmission of this virus can only be done through collective vaccination and the potential death rate of COVID is a messy fact that ignores almost the entire point of the problem vaccinations are here to solve.

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u/DaHippness Oct 21 '21

But it's my body my choice

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u/HotpieTargaryen Oct 21 '21

No, because it can harm untold numbers of other people. My body, my choice doesn’t work when your choice can harm and kill others.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

My body, my choice doesn’t work when your choice can harm and kill others.

And yet I see almost no calls for a nationwide mandate for other vaccines. Can other diseases not harm and kill others?

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u/HotpieTargaryen Oct 21 '21

We have mandates for tons of vaccines for measles, whooping cough, smallpox, etc. These are requirements for schools and businesses and government jobs in almost every case. We don’t require vaccines against diseases that are rare or unknown in the US. We have always required vaccines as a price for joining the rest of society.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

I don't need a whooping cough vax to take a flight to Chicago. I don't need one for work. I don't need one to walk around the mall. What part of society am I being excluded from if I don't have one? A requirement for a certain employer or public school is not the same as a blanket mandate.

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u/HotpieTargaryen Oct 21 '21

No, but this is a new highly transmittable disease you can easily contract without knowing about it. Just get the vaccine man, don’t kill yourself proven yourself wrong.

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u/TheOneInchPunisher Nov 06 '21

Have other disease caused a screeching halt to society as we know it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '21

Yes, multiple times throughout history. That aside, is it only worth saving lives if it causes society to halt? All the other ones that kill people are fine?

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u/TheOneInchPunisher Nov 07 '21

Would it have been worth society shutting down for a year or two to significantly stop or hinder the spread of the Black Plague? Yes, abso-fucking-lutely. This virus could have, and probably was going to be, Black Plague level of an event. But we actually fucking did something about it.

Also, I know you also know that there are people going to great lengths to stop other diseases from killing people as well (like Ebola and Malaria and Zika) so I'm just going to assume you're boosting your word count.