[quote BlueBlancmange]@TheDailyCarbunkle
The vaccine in general is a good thing, but pretending there are no risks associated is pointless.
How come you are so concerned about the very small risk associated with the vaccine, and yet have been downplaying the far greater risks associated with Covid for months?[/quote]
That's actually a very sensible question @BlancBlancmange but the fact you have to ask it illustrates the whole problem with this situation.
Say there's a dangerous cliff walk. It's your choice to go on it and it's no one else's responsibility. Authorities may put up signs and warnings but they don't prevent you from going on the walk - there's a danger you might get hurt/die but that your choice and they trust you take enough precautions to protect yourself ie they don't police your life choices and treat you like a child.
However, say I build a building and invite people in. I'm rightly not allowed to do that unless the building meets certain regulations and is safe. I certainly can't tell people it's safe when I don't know if that's true - it's my responsibility to ensure people don't get hurt and if they do, it's my fault. In fact, it's a crime to create something that puts people in danger - a building, a food, a substance that I inject them with. The last example is called poisoning.
Do you see the difference? A virus out in the world creates danger that people can choose to protect themselves for or not - unless a government forces 'protection' on them that destroys lives and leaves our children with a bombed out economy.
Injecting people with something requires that you know it's safe, otherwise you're potentially poisoning them. That's not just a danger in the world, that's a danger created by the choices of others. If you then scare people into being injected in spite of the uncertainty around safety, there is a further level of duping people into putting their own lives in danger.
Thousands of dangers exist in the world - viruses of all sorts, weather, potential for accidents, etc. No one can protect you from them all. And protecting yourself by destroying your life and the lives of others can't be described as anything but stupid. But, if you go to that extreme to 'stay safe' and then roll up your sleeve happily to be injected with something with minimal testing so that you have no idea of the long term effects, what was the point? You've just traded one danger for another. You may avoid covid now, but what if in a few years time it comes out that these vaccines are linked with a greater incidence of autoimmune disorders? Or 50% of AZ recipients have a stroke after 5 years? What then? What'll you do to 'stay safe'? Well, nothing because it'll be too late. You'll just have to sit tight and wait to see if you're a victim.