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Originally Posted by Lzen
Why is this funny? Why is everyone piling on about this? It seems to me that if someone doesn't buy into what the 'people in charge' say the they must be a nutjob. Well, that's just being dumb, IMO.
I'll tell you about my situation. I have always been a science person. Hell, my line of work is science related. I have gotten all of my vaccinations over the years. I am not some anti-vaxxer. That being said, I don't plan to get this vaccine, at least not for a long time. This vaccine was pushed through very fast and we don't understand or know what will be the long term effects, positive or negative.
Someone mentioned in this thread that it's for the better of society and also made fun of jj. Well, I might agree except that the field of science has gotten very political recently. Not to mention that the liability has been removed by our brilliant 'people in charge'.
As for masks, I wear a mask where I have to but I will stop as soon as I can. For all of you mask lemmings, the data does not show that masks make a difference. And before anyone gets uptight about that comment, go to Tom Woods website. He has some really good information on this.
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Originally Posted by Fish
Lacking trust in the vaccine's safety after it's passed the standard safety tests is being anti-vax.
The truth is that we know enough about the vaccine to declare it safe for the overwhelming majority. And it's proven to be so. A lot of people with zero scientific knowledge of how vaccines work are ignoring health experts' recommendations. Not because they have better science that challenges the knowledge already established. But because they've created some random frame of time for them to feel safe. "I'll let others take it before I risk it." Like that's meaningful in the slightest.
Science hasn't gotten political. Science is just science. Politicians are using science for political means more than ever. Which is causing an abundance of misinformation that people from both sides are just gobbling up. Leading to more and more mistrust in actual science.
For the record, I choose the same option as you regarding wearing one where I have to, yet you label me as a "Mask lemming." I'll never understand that.
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Yeah, I was going to basically say the same thing after Googling Tom Woods.... the three main words I got from a couple of sites were
politics, author, historian. And all of the videos that popped up about Covid.
And I have no idea if that guy inserts politics into his Covid discussions, but I just don't see how his opinion should matter a ton either by looking at who he is, just like any other non-scientific research (and if he does use scientific research, I'd rather just read that than whatever commentary he has on top of it).