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The fact that freedom in the US is conflated with not getting the vaccine is incomprehensible. Something like vaccination should be mandatory with very limited exceptions for truly legitimate cases.
I'm old and I remember you just got your little shot card filled up before you went to school and that was that.
I love vaccines. I get any one I can.
I treat vaccines like pokemon...gotta catch em all. If someone offers me a vaccine, I'll take it, even if it's for something rare. I just want to be immunized against as many things as possible.
You still need that card. My kid would not be allowed into school without it.
Oh thank goodness.
Yeah, but nowadays it keeps track of different "shots".
I don't know why that is in quotes
Yeah I have a vaccine card from when I was a baby and I'm over 40 so I guess that it wasn't in good faith.
Collect them all like Thanos and the infinity stones
There's a saying I want to make famous: "One man's freedom ends where another's begins." Your freedom not to take a vaccine only lasts as long as it does not affect your neighbor's rights to live and breathe.
It's a popular phrase already
I usually hear it as "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose."
Wearing a mask, quarantine and distancing protected your neighbor. The covid vaccines only protected yourself.
that's only true if time doesn't exist.
Given that time does exist, which part is false?
The part that this 2+ year old study doesn't take into consideration Omicron vaccinations. You've been vaccinated against Omicron, like a normal, sane person, haven't you? At the time this was written, they were only using original strain vaccinations. Where I am, in the present, you can't even get those any more, they're so far behind.
Or, are you an idiot, and basing decisions off of out of date papers? Because it seems like you might be.
I bet you don't even understand how flu vaccines change.
But you can't read books by black and/or gay authors in some states. The right only likes to cherry pick the freedoms.
They've become very anti freedom in fact. Unless it has something to do with a major lobby like guns, or letting corporations pollute air and water, they pretty much are pro restrictions on most things.
you can't buy alcohol in some counties.
"I wanna make a medical choice about my own body..."
The Right: "Ummm...hold on now..."
"And skip my vaccinations!"
The Right: "Oh! You scared me for a second! Carry on then."
You can't get them in school liberties, they're still available everywhere else
They also want to ban them from public libraries now. If successful, do you think they will stop there? I think it's likely that they will keep pushing for more restrictions.
Heck, I had to fight to get the vaccine in my country.
I was working at a food bank during covid. I was coming face to face with 200 different people every day. Many of whom were covid positive but because they were homeless they had no where else to go.
I have a genetic condition that effects my sympathetic nervous system. I have sinus bradycardia, and chronic pulmonary congestion due to having over 10 bouts of aspiration pneumonia. On top of this I have an autoimmune condition. I was taking immunosuppression therapy in March 2020, I stopped taking because I couldn't risk my immune system being suppressed in my line of work. I was so sick because of my untreated autoimmune condition, but I just had to deal with it.
In October we started rolling out the vaccine to our most vulnerable populous. I was eligible because of my autoimmune condition and I was first in line at my local vaccination centre.
But my genetic condition was on the list of contraindications. They were just going to send me away until I broke down crying explaining my job and my risk and my fear of catching covid. So I had to get two doctors to sign off on me getting the vaccine, and I had to make a special vaccine booking because they needed an NP to do a pre-screening and then I had to wait around for 3 hours afterwards and then get a post-vaccination check up and the NP had to sign off.
My booster shots were easier, because I just took my proof of vaccination certificate to the pharmacy and I didn't even mention my underlying conditions. (I didn't have that luxury the first time. I had to hand over my medical records to prove I was eligible for the first round of vaccinations. But after my first jab, the fact I had gotten my first dose was proof enough that I was previously approved to be part of the first round, so I didn't need to present my records to get my boosters)
Trying to get an appointment with two separate doctors during a global pandemic for some red tape paperwork was like pulling teeth.
It should not have been that hard for someone to get a vaccine when they want one. I understood the risks. I'd rather die of a vaccine interaction that helps provide information that makea the vaccine safer for others, than just be another statistic of covid 19.
I'm honestly surprised the US isn't like this just given how powerful big pharma is there
Vaccine darts would be a huge boon to public health.
Americans are generally not taught what freedom means... or the careful dance between "freedom to" and "freedom from". The "golden rule of liberty" - that "your rights end where mine begin, and vice versa" - is utterly alien to most of us. Anything that could limit someone's "freedom to" is demonized, even when that limit is because the "to" in question brazenly violates everyone else's "from".
E.G.
Rational Person: "I have a right to not be harmed by your actions."
Average Murican: "fAsCiSt!"