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They don't trust that medical companies have their best interests at heart, and are motivated by profits. Making people sick is profit.
It really isn't so strange.
And if you google on vaccine side effects, you will find a lot of them. They are rare, but they happen, and when they do, there is no help to be had.
So why is it stupid to be careful? I think it makes sense.
It’s stupid because they don’t understand probability and risk assessment. Yeah there are side effects but they are exceedingly rare and even if you get them the outcomes are usually far less severe than the disease you’re trying to prevent. It’s like saying “I refuse to wear a seat belt because it might wrinkle my suit jacket.”
I think that's up to each person to decide. Similar to how it's rare to die in a flight crash and most people accept the risk, but not all.
Whats so complicated about probability? They know it's a low probably, but it's higher than zero, always.
Almost all people who didn't vaccinate against covid are still alive and well you know.
People take a risk either way. Taking the vaccine or not taking it.
Ah, so we're just ignoring the 7 million deaths from covid then. (Source: the World Health Organization (WHO)
Covid killed more people than the fucking holocaust, so far, it isn't even finished yet. I don't understand how people don't realize this.
The issue is most of these anti-vax dumbfucks have never lived, seen, or been around infectious disease killing or disabling people. It's all theoretical to them and wild stories. They have no personal experience with the disease.
Vaccines had sufficient public buy-in when they were introduced because a large portion of society knew or were related to someone that had suffered the consequences.
Let's put it into some perspective. The Spanish flu pandemic is estimated to have killed between 25-50 million people. The population of the globe at that time is estimated to be around 2 billion. That's 1.25-2.5% of the globe died. 1 person out of 40-80 died. Everyone knew somebody or was related to somebody that died of the flu.
So even though there has always been dumbfucks who refused vaccination, the majority of the population complied.
I don't know anyone personally that died of covid. Currently estimates show 14.8 million excess deaths since 2020. This is likely the number of people who died of covid. Out of 8 billion. Or 1 out of 540 people died, mostly in countries with below average medical care.
So many Herman Cain awards were given to people that figured vaccination was the problem.