[week 71]

honestly - a little horrified that many young people have taken a non-traditionally vetted and ‘approved’ only for emergency - medication. Actually a little angry that fearful seasoned people encourage this for their own perceived safety. Sigh...... I know I cannot reason with you. Hopefully it ends well. But the selfishness is almost unforgivable.

[mrsmith]

I’m generally against the young being vaxxed.
I must say though that there are circumstances- like the vulnerable in their circle being un-vaxxable, or otherwise fragile- where it might make sense for the young to protect the older instead.
It’s clearly not the most likely situation though.

[BeauBo]

“Actually a little angry that fearful seasoned people encourage this for their own perceived safety. ... I know I cannot reason with you... But the selfishness is almost unforgivable.”

You don’t know me from a hole in the wall. Your imputing motives to me like a strawman, is way off base. I’m vaccinated, and not concerned about my safety. I volunteered for every war this Nation had for a quarter of century, and deployed for three of them.

I am frustrated by the lack of risk tolerance and objective rationality by some here - the inability to make reasonable assumptions of risk, to continue to operate. Nothing is without risk.

When I see people freak out over a 1/100,000 risk of a non-life threatening reaction, and get into a contest of who “cares” more; to me, they sound like a bunch of irrational frightened schoolgirls.

I don’t like it when people leap to unsubstantiated, erroneous claims, so the can posture as preen as the caring ones.

[familyop]

"Actually a little angry that fearful seasoned people encourage this for their own perceived safety. Sigh...... I know I cannot reason with you. Hopefully it ends well. But the selfishness is almost unforgivable."

I was a combat engineer (combat type--not construction) with an honorable discharge. ...reserve cop (volunteer, civic duty) for a short time (not my regular job). I'm clean cut, don't get high, don't like to drink much, don't do new age remedies (not a hippie), am not in a blue state. I don't try to regulate my poorer neighbors out of property and existence, don't like the "free trade" regime...well, you get the message. I'm not German, Irish, Russian or Italian. I'm a conservative American--not a libertarian. We don't like conspiracy theories, and we're descended from hundreds of years of Americans.

Several women in my locale between their teens and forties became very ill from the coronavirus and are disabled to various extents. Not expecting you to want to believe that, but it doesn't matter. Just showing you where I'm coming from.