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Originally Posted by funwheeldrive
I am a healthcare worker and have been working this entire time. That's cool that you have anecdotal experiences, but my comment was related to the roughly 80% of people who hesitated to get their vaccine. I'm not saying the media is corrupt, I'm saying they greatly exaggerate the virus which is absolutely true and shouldn't be a surprise because their whole industry relies on views/clicks. Good news is rarely good for business.
You keep emphasizing fear regarding the vaccine, but have you considered that maybe people don't fear the vaccine, and also don't fear coronavirus? You make it seem like the data is scary, when in reality it's the opposite. I'm not claiming that Covid19 isn't real, but when you view the data it's simply not the terrifying mega virus that some people would like you to believe. It certainly doesn't warrant forcing small businesses to close or mandating mask wearing for the general public.
To assume that the people who chose to decline the vaccine are uneducated is rather ignorant on your part.
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What do you do in healthcare? Do you work in Thurston County Washington? That is a fairly rural area. Are you following what is happening around the rest of the world and US? I understand the media likes to hype up anything they are covering, but you should have the skillset to determine how bad things are. You don't think that a virus that has killed 10x the number of people as the seasonal flu, even though we have been on lockdowns and are wearing masks, is that bad? Why is that? Because it mostly affects those 65 and older, so it is no big deal? Because it hasn't overwhelmed every hospital? What metric do you use to determine whether this is bad enough?
I don't have to assume anything. I asked them. I talked to dozens and dozens of my coworkers. I've read the articles where they interviewed people who say why they are not getting the vaccine. Although I can't say why everyone is not getting the vaccine, I gave a list of the 5 common reasons that I have heard and read. Outside of people joking about growing a third arm, developing super powers, having tracking devices injected in their body, etc. the reasons I listed are the only reasons.
If people didn't have fear then they would just get the vaccine. Like wearing a mask, it is how we will get the economy open again, but that point seems to evade people just like wearing a mask. Getting vaccinated is the fastest way we can fully reopen society with no masks or restrictions--outside of allowing this virus to infect everyone until we get to herd immunity and killing millions, which is not an option. Society will remain in lockdowns and stores will have restrictions until we drop the death rate and infection rate to endemic levels.
I really don't understand as healthcare workers why people would want to take a chance of potentially getting the virus and possibly giving the virus to their patients who could die. We have had several outbreaks in our hospital requiring extensive contact tracing and have had several nosocomial infections. In both cases it was determined that what most likely occurred was a false negative PCR test and a healthcare worker was exposed and then exposed multiple patients. Several patients who had been discharged ended up returning days later with fever and respiratory complications requiring admission.