Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Making Fun of Dead Anti-Vaxxers Is Now Mainstream" video.

@trey6563 where did you get the idea that they're untested? Did that come from Facebook or from a conspiracy theorist? It's the same technology that has been used for decades with other vaccinations. It isn't remotely untested. Imagine allowing a million people to die in your country because you just don't care enough to educate yourself and get vaccinated. I don't have to imagine that, it's the reality.
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@Starry Eyes If you're being serious then there's a huge difference. An abortion affects the woman who has it. Failing to get a vaccine and then being in public where you can infect others potentially affects everyone around you. We have lost 900,000 people. So many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable. We have a very serious problem in the US. Neither party prioritizes education and critical thinking. Both parties manipulate and lie, the Republican party much more so, true, but the Democratic party is so beholden to big business interests that it doesn't do the necessary things to protect the masses. Spend the time and do the research. Don't get your information from Joe Rogan or Facebook or your friends. Just because something is in an article or a video doesn't mean there's any truth to it. If you're convinced of something, spend the time to research outside of your information bubble. The things we read and listen to bring us more of the same sorts of things, everyone is in their own information bubble to an extent and we have to make an effort to go outside of it. Here are some facts. Note that I am not being rude to you, I'm not talking down to you, I'm spending time writing, one person to another. I have no interest or incentive other than trying to do the right thing. Consider that please. Right now we have a pandemic largely of the unvaccinated. The vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths due to covid are in unvaccinated people. If you are vaccinated you are also much less likely to infect other people. These are two important facts. If you are vaccinated you are greatly protected against severe illness, hospitalization and death. If you are vaccinated you are much less likely to infect others. If you are vaccinated you are much less likely to need hospital space. The pandemic has continued in this country as badly as it has because we have a large segment that has bought into misinformation for various reasons. For some because it feeds their prejudices, for others because they believe what they're told and others think that freedom comes without cost. Freedom comes with responsibilities. We have freedom and we have the responsibility to take care of those around us. In a free country people should understand that freedom comes with responsibilities. We are responsible for each other. Older people, immunocompromised people, people with pre-existing conditions, those whose bodies don't make sufficient antibodies, these groups of people together make up a significant portion of our population. We have the responsibility to take care of them too. Your decision to not wear a mask or to not get vaccinated can kill the person behind you in line. The choice to have an abortion doesn't kill your neighbor or five people in the house next to you or a thousand people a town over. Again, important facts. Being vaccinated greatly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization. This benefits you and the society at large because having our hospitals overwhelmed with the virus means that people can't get basic care and in many cases urgent care. That means that people needing care can't get it. Our hospitals are full of unvaccinated people, these people are directly responsible for your aunt not being able to get her cancer treatment or your father not getting a workup that could catch a condition before it becomes serious. Hospitals are overwhelmed because of unvaccinated people. When the person who refuses to get vaccinated gets sick then needs 10 days in the hospital to recover that puts a burden on the entire system. Had they gotten the vaccine, they either wouldn't have gotten sick at all or if they had It would have almost certainly been a minor issue. We won't know for a long time how much additional loss of life we've sustained as a result of our hospitals being overburdened with unvaccinated patients. The ripples of this will affect us for many years. The costs of refusing to get vaccinated are huge, not just for the person themselves but for society in general.
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@InverseAgonist Well written and reasoned.
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