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Great post! And informative (becoming a rarity on FR lately).

I see we are in agreement. I am not vaccinated myself. I am firmly against mandates. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the vaccines, including unknown long-term effects, elevated risk for myocarditis, especially in young males (the smallpox vaccines administered to our military back around 2003 sadly also carried elevated risk for myocarditis), indications there may be slightly elevated risk for Shingles outbreak, etc.

All these unfounded claims in these clickbait grifter blogs obscure the real concerns and make those of us in the anti-mandate side look foolish. And cry wolf too many times ...

We need truth and facts and proof on our side in this fight, not easily disproved claims that will be laughed out of court and the public square.

Whether to get the Covid vaccine is a personal and private decision and others’ decisions are none of my beeswax — or the government’s.

Someone here asked me how I could be unvaccinated yet say there are valid reasons some of us choose to get vaccinated. (As if there is a conflict there.) Here’s my reply:

I had a whopping bad case of Covid in February of 2020, and thus natural immunity that lasted until Omicron came along. I also did not personally have conditions that put me at increased risk for severe illness or death from Covid if I caught it again (not elderly, not obese, no diabetes, not taking any drugs that suppressed my immune system, not working at a checkout stand, etc). My risk/benefit ratio, plus my life situation, was in favor of my foregoing vaccination. If I had a different health profile and no natural immunity, I may well have chosen vaccination.

Others have calculated their risk/benefit ratios differently based on their own age/health condition/life situation, perhaps with the help of a trusted doctor — and I respect that their reasons for getting the vaccine may well have been perfectly valid. I am not going to judge anyone’s private, personal decision on whether to get vaccinated or not.

President Trump and our own beloved JimRob are vaccinated. Both are smart, knowledgeable men and I trust they made the right decision for themselves. Some here chose not to get vaccinated for their own personal and private reasons. I trust they made the right decision for themselves and respect that, too.

Either way, it’s really none of my business. Nor any business of the government’s. It’s neither my affair nor the government’s to go nosing about in other people’s personal private health decisions, let alone dictate them.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4088729/posts?page=15#15

The lockdowns have done massive damage in terms of human suffering and death, physical, mental and spiritual suffering, societal damage, economic damage. The damage done to children is especially maddening, yet the Dems seem to be targeting them with more vaccine and mask mandates in some cities as school starts up again. It’s insane.

The supply chain problems (an artifact of lockdowns and our reliance of imports from China) have resulted in shortages of essential goods (including pharmaceutical ingredients) and critical medical supplies.