anricat
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- Feb 20, 2014
I haven't seen anything patronizing so maybe those were moderated/deleted (however, your comment reads a little passive aggressive, which I confess raises my hackles a bit). In fact, when someone else said that they were made to feel like people who chose not to get the vaccine were "stupid" I indicated that I personally don't believe they are, it's just that we humans, as a WHOLE, are really terrible at risk assessment and I think that's a lot of what we're seeing here. We have two risks: getting sick (and possibly dying) from Covid, and getting sick (and possibly dying) from a vaccine. Which of those two presents a riskier scenario based on available numbers/data?I dislike the patronizing tone of those who may disagree with people's personal decisions about their health.
For example, the Skyliner had a mishap yesterday and people are FREAKING OUT that they will never ride it, never have, etc. But if you think about it, the thing runs nearly all day every day and has since opening (a couple years ago, right?) and has had, what, maybe two mishaps. So think of the millions of unload/reload and successful runs and then we have 2 issues. What's the risk there? It's super minimal. The bus is probably less safe, honestly, and yet, many don't want to ride because of a perception that it's "unsafe" due to these mishaps.
While I wish the vaccines were a case of personal choice (like riding the Skyliner is), regrettably, with vaccines, it's not like that. We really need a HUGE amount of people to get the vaccine in order to stop this. We need the herd. In order to help those who, for reasons wholly unrelated to personal choice, actually want the vaccine and can't get it (my friend who is a cancer patient) or get vaccines and they don't seem to work (my friend's daughter who, despite getting vaccinated for various things, never develops an immune response and still comes down with those illnesses such as the time she got chicken pox).
I feel very passionate about ending the pandemic and getting back to life as usual (especially cruising) and so I'm trying to help those who are on the fence see that while, yes, it can be a little scary to put something in their body that may seem, on the outset, like it's risky, but really, it's the least of the two risks. So to answer the question I posed in my first paragraph, the answer, by an overwhelming margin, is that the risk of getting sick and possibly dying from Covid is far and away greater. (As is the risk of long term complications/ongoing illness.)