So youre in favor of forced vaccinations on healthy young people which could give them lifelong side effects to protect high risk groups.
Yes, but it's because your "facts" are misconstrued based on fear rather than science.
Covid can not only kill you, but it can also give people life-long side effects too (
ref). If you compare the side effects from the disease vs the vaccine you'll see the disease is a lot worse. Regardless, the health department has looked at all the risks and weighed them against the benefits and the conclusion of actual scientists (not my opinion) is
the benefits far exceed the very rare risks of adverse events.
Finally, there's an emotional fallacy in your assumption... you believe the vaccination harms
healthy young people. If you dig into it you'll probably find many had complications to begin with, and yes I misspoke - people at risk (e.g., clotting) should be
exempt from the vaccination. But healthy young people should get it as it protects them from worse possible outcomes.
I understand the fear. But the fear of the disease, especially with the increased contagiousness of Omicron, should be greater. People are fearing the wrong thing.
The
CDC reports 4 severe side effects that are rare, but if you avoid the J&J vaccine (they're rare too it just saves me typing ; -) there are only two:
- Anaphylaxis is an allergic reaction that is usually most dangerous for asthmatics. It's like having an allergic reaction to a bee sting or peanut butter. It's not a life-long side effect. This typically affects 5 in 1,000,000. Usually treated with something like an epi-pen. This is a risk for any vaccine, and those sensitive to them are generally well aware of it and should only get vaccinated by their doctor.
- Myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination are rare. Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis is inflammation of the outer lining of the heart. In both cases, it's the body’s natural immune system that causes inflammation in response to an infection or some other trigger. Usually, this goes away with no permanent complications (ref). Out of 522,000,000 doses, there have been 1,175 cases. Researching this I couldn't find a statistic for those that developed a "severe" condition but did see the recovery was fairly quick. I did find 1 possibly related death in 522,000,000 doses. Keep in mind getting Covid also causes myocarditas and pericarditis, so there's risk there too.
If you get the vaccine and have an adverse reaction I'm fairly sure you would have it anyway from the disease and probably a lot milder. Ergo, the vaccine
protects you.
Would it be right to put the whole neighborhood on lockdown for her when she could take precautions herself?
Let's not kill baby seals either! Let's try to keep the argument focused on actual discussion points rather than throw in random things people will agree with to bolster your argument.
Many of the conditions which the highest risk people have preclude them from having regular jobs anyway.
Reference please? I don't think asthma, cancer treatments, being obese, etc. precludes anyone from "regular" jobs.
This is the first pandemic where we quarantened the healthy.
Reference please? Pretty sure that's wrong. You
quarantine the healthy to ensure they're healthy and
isolate the sick so they don't spread it.
Even when the plague swept London in 1665 healthy people probably hid in their homes. But who knows, perhaps they were going to the dark ages equivalent of
covid parties.
On any ship entering port, the entire ship was frequently quarantined and most of them were
usually healthy (mainly because the voyages were long and after a few weeks at sea with no exposure to new viruses the crew "got healthy").