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Originally Posted by Opie
I can't stop laughing over the fear that has been instilled into so many over this virus. I'm still in a high risk group, still traveling around the country, to the stores, on airplanes, eating out at restaurants...have been wearing a mask around others and washing my hands, and, other than on airplanes, maintaining my distance....still caught the virus, was a "different" feel than others viruses/flu, but beat it in short order. Contact traced those who had been around me, none got it, stayed sequestered as per Dr orders, no one in my household got it. Have been offered the vaccine 3 times because of my "high risk" categorization and have decided against getting the vaccine until the trials, that you all are unknowingly participating in, are complete and it gets full FDA approval as I will not risk my rights against any potential liabilities the emergency use vaccines may cause as they will not be covered currently.
I have had multiple acquaintances that have also contracted the virus, some minor, some moderate, some major and even one that was fatal so I do not think this was a hoax, but it was certainly manipulated to cause an unnecessary amount of fear in the populous. |
How have you assessed that the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus? You survived the virus, but think you are going to die or get cancer from a vaccine or something? You are running a COVID re-exposure experiment on yourself and others, but think the big experiment is the vaccine? Don’t you see the irony? Are you one of those cigarette-smoking, anti-vaxxers who “doesn’t put anything unnatural in their body”?
While I have had concerns, I haven’t had fear. My concern as a healthcare worker was that I would be exposed repeatedly and could develop long term complications, but I was more concerned that I would get it and pass it to others who could die. Healthcare workers take a vow to do no harm. Most specifically, and selfishly, I had the concern that I would pass it to my parents who are at retirement age and who could die. The mortality over 65 is worse than 1 in 150 or something (I haven’t done the math in a while). The other real concern was overwhelming the healthcare system, which we saw all over the world at different times, especially in the US.
You say this was manipulated to cause an unnecessary amount of fear. If anything, the former administration did everything to downplay the severity of the virus, and 550,000 deaths later, we see the consequences. I don’t think we needed to have fear. What we needed to have was concern for our fellow countryman and acknowledgement that this virus was a threat to our systems. When we look around the world at countries that took this virus serious, who’s people took the virus serious, who are experienced with pandemics, they succeeded with fewer deaths, with less time in lockdowns, with more financial success or less losses, etc. I think the biggest problem was the propaganda that this virus could be ignored, and it would just go away on its own with minimal casualties or disruptions to industries. In fact, the opposite was the case; ignoring the problem only made it worse.