It's dishonest and absurd of you to repeatedly take the fact that the vaccines significantly reduce the odds of contracting and spreading COVID-19 and rephrase it this way. Nobody is talking about anything else. You're arguing against a strawman. I cannot overstate this. I expect it to stop now.
When you're interacting with people in, for example, a store that you do not own, not having to wear a mask during a pandemic is a privilege, yes.
It is immoral. If you don't get vaccinated, your odds of contracting and spreading the disease to other people are significant higher than if you were vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated and you don't wear a mask, the odds are even higher than that. There is a moral imperative to get vaccinated, and there is a moral imperative (and in a lot of cases, an actual requirement) to wear a mask if you are unvaccinated.
Regarding the topic of conversation, there are only two choices: get vaccinated or don't. The latter comes with significantly higher chances of spreading disease to other people, so there is a moral imperative to do the former.
Consistently = a lot
Also, what you keep saying is a false dilemma isn't actually a false dilemma if it's true.
Refusing the vaccine is anti-science and immoral.
A choice does have to be made between getting the vaccine and not getting the vaccine.
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated that the vaccines have caused thousands of deaths and hospitalizations.
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly, and hyperbolically, stated that the vaccines are "the most lethal toxic biologic agent ever injected into a human body in American history."
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated that natural immunity from COVID-19 is "way better" than getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated COVID-19 survivors "can’t get the virus," so they don’t need to be vaccinated.
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated the vaccines' spike proteins "damage blood vessels and causes blood clotting."
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated that the vaccines haven't been tested for safety and efficacy.
- Fact: This cardiologist incorrectly stated that these vaccines might cause one to be "marked in a database and this can be used for trade, for commerce, for behavior modification, all different purposes."
In summary, this cardiologist is peddling anti-vax bullshit about the vaccines being unsafe when they're not, and he's suggesting people should not get vaccinated. He's clearly supporting risking COVID-19 contraction over vaccination, and the advice is as dangerous as it is stupid. He is also clearly peddling the debunked nonsense, as the political right has done over the last year and a half, that young people would be better off contracting the virus and developing natural immunity.
- Natural immunity to COVID-19 comes with all of the serious risks associated with contracting COVID-19, including but not limited to mild symptoms, moderate symptoms, long-term effects, severe symptoms, hospitalization, and death.
- Even if you are young and healthy, the risk of serious effects from COVID-19 are far more likely and far more dangerous than anything from the COVID-19 vaccines.
- Natural immunity from having COVID-19 also means you are spreading the disease to other people while you have it. There is no risk of spreading COVID-19 as a direct result of being vaccinated.
- 30% of children who are contracting COVID-19 are developing "long-haul COVID-19," and they're contracting COVID-19 overwhelmingly from people who willfully choose not to get vaccinated.
- We have data regarding how long immunity lasts as a result of getting vaccinated. The data regarding how long natural immunity lasts is less clear.
- At the very least, immunity for vaccination has a lot less variability than natural immunity.
- We know that, regardless of whether or not a person develops natural immunity from COVID-19, a person is likely to develop better and longer-lasting immunity after a COVID-19 vaccine than anything else if that person has already had COVID-19.
The amount of spike protein is incredibly relevant, Dr. Tabzer.
Who got tabzer one of these?