@moralorel – let's sense check here.
But states have to deal with the public as a whole ... their responsibility is to the public, as a whole.
If, for example, if someone were the carrier of a highly infectious and potentially fatal disease, the state would exercise it's right to isolate said person for the public good. The same way the state has the right to incarcerate felons who would rather not be in jail, or conscript people to fight a war, knowing a percentage of those selected will become casualties.
The idea that my personal rights and freedoms supersedes the rights of the state is a fantasy.
The idea that by so doing is an abuse to my rights and freedoms is equally not the case.
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OK, but very rarely dangerous, so the number is significantly fewer than those who will benefit – that is a decision the state has to make – at what point is a vaccine's danger outweigh its benefits to the public?
It is more the case that reactions to vaccines are relatively minor, if inconvenient. Flu vaccines can stimulate a flu-like reaction. I had an ache in my arm for a short while. Polio vaccines can cause 'aches and pains' but I'll happily risk that, than risk polio ... No vaccine is safe, so everyone has to weigh risk and reward.
In the UK there was a famous case of a paper that linked the MMR vaccine to autism. The media picked it up and the popular press went into a frenzy. By the time peer-review caught up with the paper, it was demonstrably nonsense, garbage for a whole number of reasons ... but the damage had been done, and still reverberates today.
Well there you go. Clear grounds for exemption. They were in place from the get-go in the UK. Was that not the case in the US?
This is a silly statement.
Many families were devastated by COVID, many, many families.
And you explain to families grieving lost loved ones that because some people chose their 'civil rights' over the 'common good', they helped spread the virus.
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I'm just trying to balance the argument for the sake of reason. I feel all sympathy for your loss and your situation, and I support those who, for sound and solid reasons, choose not to take a vaccine.
But I have little sympathy for anyone who gets their argument off YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, or the pronouncements of right-wing think-tanks with a clear and evident agenda.
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I am under no illusion about Big Pharma. Anyone who knows anything about the Oxycontin / Fentanyl fiasco should be in no doubt. I happen to know personally a survivor of the UK 'hepatitis blood scandal' of the 1990s, plasma bought from the US where Big Pharma saw a way of making a fast and dirty buck.
My particular beef is with Processed Foods, which I happen to think, is bad for us all. We make a fuss about vaccines, but eat 'convenience food' which is pumped full of vaccines, antibiotics, etc., etc.
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Nothing against you guys, you understand, and I'm not exonerating the UK or Europe, rather, I think it's where corporates get bigger, the scale of abuses increases proportionally.
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