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dullard

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Without arguing the details, I for one am totally open to doing ANYTHING that helps keep me and my family safe. It may not be perfect, but to do nothing is asinine. I am not saying you are arguing against it, but this sort of black and white thinking is what keeps people form doing anything.
Cooking food doesn't fully stop all ecoli and all samonella, so we shouldn't eat.

Water purification doesn't fully remove all arsenic, so we shouldn't drink.
 

eikelbijter

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Without arguing the details, I for one am totally open to doing ANYTHING that helps keep me and my family safe. It may not be perfect, but to do nothing is asinine. I am not saying you are arguing against it, but this sort of black and white thinking is what keeps people form doing anything.

Masks aren't perfect-don't wear masks at all.
Vaccine isn't perfect - don't get vaccinated.
Omicron is not totally stopped even with a booster - don't get a booster.

Without masks and vaccines, things would be infinitely worse, yet there are millions of people who would do nothing because it doesn'1t fix everything perfectly. Conservative brains are broken.
I never, NEVER said "don't get a booster". My problem is with "forcing" others, especially based on false premises.

Now you say ANYTHING, but that's not true. There are ALWAYS limits. You know what would keep you and your family safe? If you prevent anyone else from driving on the roads when YOU are. That would lower your chances of an accident by a LOT, but it's completely unreasonable.
 

weblooker2021

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And maybe if everyone got a shot every 2 months we can stomp out this virus in half a year. It’s just being prolonged because of stubborn people refusing their first shot and now the people refusing to get a booster
You're welcome keep getting booster for the rest of your life but i am done.
 

dullard

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No one is forcing you to do anything. You can stay at home, isolate yourself for the rest of your life. The choice is yours to make.
So you are forcing me to stay home to be safe from you?

Twist the wording all you want, but in effect you are forcing people to either die or be imprisoned. All we want to do is force you to be safe (actually we want you to choose to be safe, but we will resort to forcing if you insist, your choice).
 
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weblooker2021

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So you are forcing me to stay home to be safe from you?

Twist the wording all you want, but in effect you are forcing people to either die or be imprisoned.
That is your choice to make. Your other choice is to wear biohazard suit level A. That way you almost certainly not get infected. What you do is your decision to make as that is your choice.
 

dullard

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That is your choice to make. Your other choice is to wear biohazard suit level A. That way you almost certainly not get infected. What you do is your decision to make as that is your choice.
You can make the decision to get boosted or stay home. Then we don't have to force anything. You are the only one choosing to be forced.
 
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blackangst1

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Wow, how do you even put those two quotes into the same conversation? Ultimately, I think the issue is that you are thinking in absolutes: things work or they don't work. You should be thinking in terms of likelihood of adverse effects. Some things work pretty darn well. Are they perfect in all possible cases? No, but they still work for the vast majority of cases and thus are worthwhile tools. If perfection is your only possible acceptable choice, then why bother to do anything at all as there is no perfect protection for life?

Agree 100%
 

manly

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Those MIT lectures are not your typical Youtube videos my friend. There's a LOT of great information to be gotten which used to take a college degree to attain.

I brought in Omicron because we were talking about with IT the protection against infection with the current vaccines is SO low, that it does not materially prevent further transmission through the population. Of course it is great possible news that it might be less deadly, but the fact remains that the "knights of morality" out there are insinuating that unless virtually everyone gets vaccinated, this will go on forever and that's just not true.

Now as far as breakthrough infections go: the article states that between April and November there were 1.8 million breakthrough infections. These were POSITIVE TESTS! We know that even with Delta, the vaccine protection against severe disease is quite high, so there HAVE to be many more that WERE positive but did not get tested. I don't think 10 million is unreasonable....
Pulling numbers out of your ass is not my definition of reasonable.
 
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weblooker2021

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But the rest of us do not have the freedom to be safe? I see that you are not about freedom at all, you are about selfishness.
Each person needs to take whatever measures they feel they need to make to keep themselves and other safe. Don't expect anyone else to keep you safe.
 

dullard

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Becasue you cant catch COVID from a vaxxed person, right?
It is a numbers game, like I posted to you above. Black and white is not the way to look at it.

Suppose I am vaxxed and am 80% protected. But now suppose the people I deal with are vaxxed and are also 80% protected. Now my protection goes up to 1-(1-0.8)^2 = 96%. Now suppose the people they were exposed to were vaxxed, then my protection becomes 1-(1-0.8)^3 = 99.2%. Etc. The more that are vaxxed, the more likely that it becomes impossible to catch it.
 
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repoman0

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You're welcome keep getting booster for the rest of your life but i am done.

You have now spent more time broadcasting this on repeat to this forum than you would spend getting the booster for the rest of your life. Really weird that you seem to need this forum’s validation or something. No one gives a shit that you don’t want the shot, you can stop saying it over and over again like a broken record.
 

eikelbijter

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But the rest of us do not have the freedom to be safe? I see that you are not about freedom at all, you are about selfishness.
This is EXACTLY the fascist playbook, safety above EVERYTHING. Fact is, life is dangerous; we must COLLECTIVELY agree on what's reasonable and what isn't. Fact is, NOBODY is 100% "safe" and nothing is more dangerous than doing everything possible to get from 99.4% to 99.9%.

Think about driving, which kills 40 thousand people per year in the US. If we lower the maximum speed, the number of deaths goes down. Why don't we make the maximum 20 mph? Because the benefits don't outweigh the costs to society.
 
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blackangst1

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It is a numbers game, like I posted to you above. Black and white is not the way to look at it.

Suppose I am vaxxed and am 80% protected. But now suppose the people I deal with are vaxxed and are also 80% protected. Now my protection goes up to 1-(1-0.8)^2 = 96%. Now suppose the people they were exposed to were vaxxed, then my protection becomes 1-(1-0.8)^3 = 99.2%. Etc. The more that are vaxxed, the more likely that it becomes impossible to catch it.


Uh, OK? You know I agreed 100% with your post #3688...
 

weblooker2021

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It is a numbers game, like I posted to you above. Black and white is not the way to look at it.

Suppose I am vaxxed and am 80% protected. But now suppose the people I deal with are vaxxed and are also 80% protected. Now my protection goes up to 1-(1-0.8)^2 = 96%. Now suppose the people they were exposed to were vaxxed, then my protection becomes 1-(1-0.8)^3 = 99.2%. Etc. The more that are vaxxed, the more likely that it becomes impossible to catch it.
Yes it's a number game but what you don't understand is that it do not last long. The reality is that booster last around 2-3 months at most and then you would need another one. There is a reason why some countries now recommending booster after 3 months.
 
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