COVID-19

[johnboyA6E]

dear god, that is terrifying.....

are people actually living like that? if that is a real letter, and not a parody, it answers a lot of questions about why we are so divided

i'm not sure who is more crazy, the mother who wrote the letter, or the person who responded to it and didn't tell the mother to chill the fuck out

 

[Treetop Flyer]

I think you’ll get a kick out of this letter to the editor, as it drives home one of the points you mentioned above.

I can’t fathom how people still live like this.

Dear Care and Feeding: How Do I Get Over My Daughter’s Severe Lapse in Judgment?

slate.com

Please tell me that’s satire

 

[MIDNJAC]

JFC that is amazing. Hopefully that was a joke submission rather than a real person that behaves that way.

 

[SlickAg]

Please tell me that’s satire

Nope.

 

[Spekkio]

You're completely missing my point. You said that unvaccinated folks should not be able to receive medical care because your daughters health should come before theirs.

And in a later post acknowledged that's an absurd position to drive home the point why mandatory vaccination is a smart public health policy. We aren't going to decide who does or doesn't get health care, other than assessing your ability to pay for it when it comes to chronic care and some surgeries.

We're only upset because this is being imposed on adults. In my location, if my kids didn't receive appropriate vaccines they couldn't attend public school. You can call that communist or totalitarianism or whatever, but it's a common practice.

And with respect to totalitarianism and govt regulations aimed squarely at protecting people from themselves, where's the line? All the laws you quoted are aimed at protecting other people, except for the seatbelt law, which imho is also a BS law. The only way the vax mandate would protect other people is if we mandate boosters every 3 months forever.

This is a silly slippery slope argument and your assertion that we need 3 month booster shots is patently false.

Edited to add one last thing. Comparing forcing people to inject something in their bodies to using tax write-offs to influence behavior is the most absurd comparison I've heard since the last time I read one of Brett's posts.

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. You can decide not to get the vaccine and face the consequences of that decision.

 

[ABMD]

I think you’ll get a kick out of this letter to the editor, as it drives home one of the points you mentioned above.

I can’t fathom how people still live like this.

Dear Care and Feeding: How Do I Get Over My Daughter’s Severe Lapse in Judgment?

slate.com

Is this for real or is someone taking the progressives at Slate for a ride? I really hope it's the latter.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

And in a later post acknowledged that's an absurd position to drive home the point why mandatory vaccination is a smart public health policy. We aren't going to decide who does or doesn't get health care, other than assessing your ability to pay for it when it comes to chronic care and some surgeries.

We're only upset because this is being imposed on adults. In my location, if my kids didn't receive appropriate vaccines they couldn't attend public school. You can call that communist or totalitarianism or whatever, but it's a common practice.

This is a silly slippery slope argument and your assertion that we need 3 month booster shots is patently false.


No one is forcing anyone to do anything. You can decide not to get the vaccine and face the consequences of that decision.

Apparently it’s six months

 

[SlickAg]

Is this for real or is someone taking the progressives at Slate for a ride? I really hope it's the latter.

Hopefully one of the coronabros will be able to debunk this urban myth soon...really hoping that’s the case.

 

[Hair Warrior]

Apparently Fauci murders puppies by having insects eat them alive. Google it.

 

[Spekkio]

Apparently it’s six months

It's 6mos for being susceptible to symptomatic infection. However, protection against serious illness or death lasts much longer (a still to be determined time, but longer than 12 mo), and that's the important part.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

It's 6mos for being susceptible to symptomatic infection. However, protection against serious illness or death lasts much longer (a still to be determined time, but longer than 12 mo), and that's the important part.

Let’s see what Navy policy says. Because for the vast majority of the military serious illness and death aren’t a threat.

 

[Spekkio]

Let’s see what Navy policy says. Because for the vast majority of the military serious illness and death aren’t a threat.

That's not what CAPT Honors thought. Laid down his command and lost 3 mo of Ao because the disease was a deadly threat to the crew. The Navy will continue to operate on that premise.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

That's not what CAPT Honors thought. Laid down his command and lost 3 mo of Ao because the disease was a deadly threat to the crew. The Navy will continue to operate on that premise.

He was wrong. And that’s a really stupid example to use in 2021

 

[SlickAg]

Also, Captain Crozier.

 

[Mirage]

It's 6mos for being susceptible to symptomatic infection. However, protection against serious illness or death lasts much longer (a still to be determined time, but longer than 12 mo), and that's the important part.

If we're talking about a mandate for civilians, the important part is how long it reduces the risk of transmission. That's the whole argument for the mandate. And it only slows transmission for 3-6 months.