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[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No. For multiple reasons:

  • Vaccines are not 100% effective. They reduce the likelihood of infection if you are exposed. The whole point of trying to get everyone vaccinated is to reduce the infection rate so that there's less likely to be an outbreak. With a vaccinated population, the virus can't spread fast enough to maintain a pool of infected people to keep spreading it. But that doesn't mean nobody gets sick.
  • Vaccines are not as effective on some people. There's a range of effectiveness.
  • Not everyone can get vaccinated. People with certain allergies or compromised immune systems in particular.
  • Some parts of the population have higher risk factors than others and when they get sick it can be much more serious. Usually the very old and the very young. And again, people with compromised immune systems, or other conditions that complicate the illness.
  • Kids whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated are put at elevated risk through no fault of their own.

I could probably keep going, but hopefully you get the idea why that's just not a viable approach.

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everybody who gets vaccinated is documented as having gotten vaccinated, no?

So why can't hospitals check the record and confirm that patients have been vaccinated? If they have, then everything's fine. If they couldn't get vaccinated for legitimate reasons, that'd be documented too.

The point is to ensure as many people are vaccinated as possible, not to prove a point about the efficacy of vaccines.

That said, I dislike the idea of healthcare being able to pick and choose, for any reason, not to treat someone. Then again I live in a sane country with free healthcare.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

That said, I dislike the idea of healthcare being able to pick and choose, for any reason, not to treat someone.

This is exactly the problem. Once you start talking about who does and does not deserve healthcare, you've gone to a place I refuse to follow. There is far too much nuance to start drawing lines in the sand.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they have the vaccine and it doesn’t work, then fine. But if they refuse it without being one of the small groups of people with a diagnosed and documented reason to not get it, then they should stay home and tough it out.

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's such a bizarrely American view to restrict people's access to healthcare... I guess the US will never get free healthcare if healthcare is still seen as a privilege and not a right.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

It has a lot to do with people being so loud about their opinions, and trying to force those opinions onto others. Then, becoming victims of their own stupidity and infecting others. It’s mentally exhausting to the point where the only thing that I want is leopards eating faces.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 1 day ago

Which part? The part where your wife told you she was allergic based on zero actual evidence and when you got pressed on it you panicked and resorted to expletives?

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