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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Not saying this directly to you but I find it ironic that many in this country can take a "people die every day" attitude about the vaccine after 12+ months of lamenting every, single, last, death by COVID (and some not even caused by COVID).
There seems to be a lot of convenience in opinions about this subject and very little conviction.
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There's definitely some hypocrisy on the surface, but just like an Alex Smith debate, a lot of it is a product of people's first-grade level of comprehension and debate, so everyone gets pigeonholed into the two extremes with no gray area.
And no offense, but the hyperbole of "lamenting every, single, last, death" is part of that (I get it... we all talk about the same stuff forever and the hyperbole comes out).
My personal issue with the whole "people die everyday" thing for the past year has been the obvious influx of deaths. The difference between an average and bad flu season is ~20k deaths, yet we're talking about 10x the number of a bad flu season dying of Covid, and that's with the shutdowns and masks and what not.
But, can you imagine
600,000 people dying from the vaccine in the next year? Half that? Ten percent of that? At ten percent or even far less, the vaccines would be deemed a colossal failure all around, much less the opportunity costs of waiting another 6 months or year to start getting shots in arms.
And I'll admit, reading this thread, I noticed the pattern of some of the people who have dismissed Covid as a real threat for the past year and have called others afraid and scared of a virus, are now what I could easily call "afraid" of a vaccine. One of those things killed 600k Americans and caused serious long term issues to many others (and we had relatively little control over it), while the other will most likely kill or cause issues for a small fraction of 600k (and has been tested and so forth).
And while I'll probably shitpost about that at some point, there's of course more to the story... and for some people, that story is they're terrible at math, and for others it's the denial of only wanting to look out for themselves... but, many others don't fall into the extreme and are simply trying to make sense of the data they come across.