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A Georgia woman has died after an abortion ban delayed lifesaving care
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Your body, their choice.
Just look at what pharma had gotten away with over the last four years. "Undergo this medical procedure or kiss your civil liberties goodbye!"
What were the civil liberties under threat for the non vaccinated?
I was honestly expecting to receive a lemmy flavored beatdown for that comment.
I am of the persuasion that even if we consider the products to be safe and tested, coercion is still the wrong way to go about it.
I did not reject the pharma shots because it was allegedly unsafe or experimental, but because I don't believe the threat it claims to prevent against represents a substantial enough risk to warrant all the destructive measures we've all been forced to endure.
Hey, look, it's ~~Typhoid Mary~~ COVID Larry, who wants all the privileges of society yet none of the responsibilities. If you don't want to uphold the social contract, I'm okay with it. Get out.
Ah, like clockwork.
So I'm supposed to just buy your anti-intellectualism rhetoric? Why should I trust your dumb ass over an expert in the field?
I'm always lamenting how sides reach extreme positions because nobody talks to eachother anymore. So instead of taking another potshot back at you, I will be genuine for a moment (a rarity, if you peruse my post history) and lay out my rationale.
We are going on five years from those events. I don't have any delusions that any amount of argumentation or persuasion will be able to swing either of us toward the other's view. And yet, here we are.
This ignores that, until we had an effective treatment program and mass vaccinations, it had a mortality rate of about 20 times that of the flu. After effective treatment plans, vaccines, antivirals, etc. it was brought more in line with the flu. 0.5% mortality means that you need to know 200 people who got sick to know someone who died. This also ignores all the people we saw online who would deny their family members died of COVID. Having had friends working in hospitals, COVID deaths were happening. And let's be honest, how many people have you personally run into who died of the flu, yet that happens every year. We just shrug and move on. They were old, it was their time. And if it was your child, it was devastating, but could you even relate if your friend's infant had died of the flu?
People historically are really bad at statistical analysis, so tiny risks over huge occurrences are dismissed, and most people will get away with it so we feel like the bad outcomes didn't happen at all. But they do, and they did, and now a lot more people died than had to because people couldn't stay home when they were sick, or wear a mask in public, or not cough in other people's faces because it's just a flu. And I honestly can't show any respect to people who think their life is so much more important than anyone else's that they can't show a little respect and just try to not risk a stranger's health because it might be a little uncomfortable.