I fundamentally believe that people should get vaccinated. I don’t believe that it will prevent you from getting Covid but I believe it can help reduce the severity of the symptoms. Take this with a grain of salt as I’m not a doctor (and I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn last night) so talk to your Doctor for medical advice.
My next door neighbor is a pulmonologist and specializes in respiratory tract diseases and infections told me that “This **** is like Herpes… It’s here to stay…” LOL
I’m not a big fan of Government mandated programs for three reasons.
- They tend to be introduced with one group in the population who are unpopular, but mandates can quickly spread to others. You could easily make the same arguments for smokers, drug users, even motorcyclists as they tend to have a bigger impact on heath care services. Fat obese people with insulation resistance tend to be impacted most by covid. Are you going to force them to lose weight?
- There are a number of groups using government mandated health programs for their own nefarious reasons. Its already fed into arguments in a number of initiatives to overturn Roe Vs Wade where the government should have the ability to mandate what happens to someones own body. That’s an extreme case but is frightening as if that’s overturned do we go back to back alley abortionists that could cost someone their life?
- This also has not worked well in the past where societies have “othered” parts of their social structure leading to things like euthanasia and forced sterilization. Again, its an extreme example but it’s not without precedent, and a number cases could be sited that happened even within the last 100 years, and even in “civilized” societies like Western Europe, The Balkans, etc. This is an interesting speech that was made before Covid jump to the 7 minute mark…
I watched the video. Since the speech is being translated it goes pretty slow and I found it more endurable by boosting the speed to X 1.75. I like the 11th commandment. Do not be indifferent.
You make valid points but as in most things people look at the symptoms instead of the disease. The governments need courage, intelligence, will power and self sacrifice to resolve the real issues instead of bandaging the symptoms. I have no reason to believe the governments have even one of the four requisites.
Look at obesity. How many people want to be fat?
Outside of a Sumo wrestler I can't think of a reason why person would want the issues that come with obesity. They include fat shaming, clothing fit issues, social exclusion, activity restrictions, prescription costs, joint pain, embarrassment, etc.
So why the obesity epidemic and what can the government do?
They can tax, punish and join in the shaming. The shaming will be done using politically correct words like weight challenged. The real problem is in reality education so that people understand why they are making the wrong choices. Opposing any educational efforts will be lobbyists and psychologists from the food industry so they can continue to force feed the population. They have billions of dollars at stake and will fight change to the bitter end.
Most diets are counter productive jokes, doing more harm than good. For decades Weight Watchers was owned by a food company. Talk about a conflict of interest.
I'm increasingly getting p***** seeing grocery stores super sizing snack items, 2 for $5 or $3 for one.
Instead of doing the right thing it's easier for the government to put the onus on the victim to sort out their life, ignoring the fact that the victim hasn't been given the tools to do the job.
On the abortion issue it's so easy to "blame the slut for not keeping her legs together" and she deserves to be burdened for the rest of her life. While at the same time every TV set and billboard on the planet seems to push hedonism without limits. I'm sure many shareholders of the "Get them drunk and careless" companies are also anti abortionists.
I'm pro vaccine and boosters but have no faith in our elected officials to screen the corrupt or inept from the systems. You might as well put a fox in the hen house to guard the chickens. What if the drug companies cranked out a report that said a small dose a month is a better choice than one a year. Oh wait, to minimize ripple effect let's make it once a week. If it gets to a pill, have one every morning. Kaching.
How do we restore critical thinking instead of relying on knee jerk reactions?
Critical thinking destroys profit.
