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Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Wildswanderer

Veteran Member
I feel you actually need a fire in your backyard in order to react.

The truth is, it's just not that big a threat for most people out there. It still is a solid fact most people will, not if, but will survive covid even if infected.

Sure it kills, just like heart disease and the flu so the choice is up to individuals imo. Not the collective.
Exactly.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
What absolute rubbish !

It's easy to yell. How about specifying what, in my post, is rubbish. Maybe that's too hard for you to do.

Are you going to 'shout' every time a new variant/virus comes along and blame everybody but yourself?
You are nothing but a panic-mongerer.

When the vaccine is available and people are refusing to get it I, and many others, will blame the unvaccinated for continuing to spread the virus - because it's true.

Why do you believe citing statistics is panic-mongering?

On the other hand, people spreading lies about the vaccine are the ones engaging in fear-mongering.

Do you believe microchips get implanted in your arm when you are given the vaccine? Do you believe, without a shred of evidence beyond anecdotes, that the vaccine has killed people? There are people spreading this nonsense on RF. They are the fear-mongers.

Extreme views are damaging on BOTH sides of the argument.
What extreme views have I posited? Making vaccines mandatory is not an extreme view. Almost every parent in this country and indeed in the civilized world, has accepted the concept of vaccinating their children to save them from the effects of polio and measels. That's not extreme.


Bullying people will not convince them. If anything it will make them more stubborn.

You have a strange concept of the term "bullying".

You may need a lesson from history.
The deadly polio epidemic and why it matters for coronavirus
The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us. But it is strangely familiar to those who lived through the polio epidemic of the last century.

Like a horror movie, throughout the first half of the 20th century, the polio virus arrived each summer, striking without warning. No one knew how polio was transmitted or what caused it. There were wild theories that the virus spread from imported bananas or stray cats. There was no known cure or vaccine.

For the next four decades, swimming pools and movie theaters closed during polio season for fear of this invisible enemy. Parents stopped sending their children to playgrounds or birthday parties for fear they would “catch polio.”

In the outbreak of 1916, health workers in New York City would physically remove children from their homes or playgrounds if they suspected they might be infected. Kids, who seemed to be targeted by the disease, were taken from their families and isolated in sanitariums.

In 1952, the number of polio cases in the U.S. peaked at 57,879, resulting in 3,145 deaths. Those who survived this highly infectious disease could end up with some form of paralysis, forcing them to use crutches, wheelchairs or to be put into an iron lung, a large tank respirator that would pull air in and out of the lungs, allowing them to breathe.

Ultimately, poliomyelitis was conquered in 1955 by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh.
And, yes, vaccines do work...
Before a vaccine was available, polio caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis a year in the U.S. It was the most feared disease of the 20th century. With the success of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk, 39, became one of the most celebrated scientists in the world.

He refused a patent for his work, saying the vaccine belonged to the people and that to patent it would be like “patenting the Sun.” Leading drug manufacturers made the vaccine available, and more than 400 million doses were distributed between 1955 and 1962, reducing the cases of polio by 90%. By the end of the century, the polio scare had become a faint memory.​
 

ecco

Veteran Member
It seems to me that hyperbole and unnuanced, blanket demonization go against the very essence of rationalist and scientific thinking. Diluting the atrocity of the intentional, proactive malice involved in supporting terrorists with such a comparison is problematic at best.

Edit: The main issue with your statement is that not everyone who opposes vaccine mandates does so out of malice or a desire to support the killing of others, unlike those who support terrorists. This distinction can be crucial to acknowledge when trying to convince someone that vaccines are indeed safe and extremely useful in combating the pandemic.

A distinction without a difference.

What is the reason people rail against the need to get vaccinated? Is it willful ignorance of the facts surrounding COVID and the vaccine?

Is it willful ignorance brought about by religious beliefs?

I have seen interviews of people believing God will protect them. I have seen interviews of people saying "It's god's will". These people contribute to the spread of Covid and the ongoing number of deaths.

There are also people who believe the actions of ISIS, Taliban, et al, are justified for religious reasons. These people contribute to the spread of terrorist groups and the ongoing number of deaths.
 

Wildswanderer

Veteran Member
You (or someone who believes like you) has made that ridiculous comment before.
Nothing ridiculous about it. It's a fact.
"The newly released report showing that vaccinated people can still be superspreaders drove the recent decision by the CDC to once again recommend masks for vaccinated people indoors where case counts are high or substantial.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
It's spreading through vaccinated people too.
You (or someone who believes like you) has made that ridiculous comment before.
Nothing ridiculous about it. It's a fact.

"The newly released report showing that vaccinated people can still be superspreaders drove the recent decision by the CDC to once again recommend masks for vaccinated people indoors where case counts are high or substantial.
Which "newly released report" are you referring to?
I wouldn't have to ask if you had taken the time to show your source.


Nevertheless, "It's spreading through vaccinated people too." was a ridiculous comment because it is accepted knowledge that vaccinated people can spread the disease if they get infected.

HOWEVER, the number of these events is minuscule compared to the number of infections caused by unvaccinated people. You trying to make the two sound equal is what makes your comment ridiculous nonsense.

FURTHERMORE, of the 1100 or so persons dying daily, the vast majority of them were unvaccinated.


You may know that Texas Governor, Abbot, is not a big fan of pushing vaccines. Yet, officially, Texas recognizes the problem:
my emphases

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/covid19/data/cases-and-deaths-by-vaccination-status-11082021.pdf
1. From September 4 through October 1, 2021: • Unvaccinated people were 13 times more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people. • Unvaccinated people were 20 times more likely to experience COVID-19-associated death than fully vaccinated people. 2. Vaccination had a strong protective effect on infections and deaths among people of all ages. The protective impact on infections was consistent across adult age groups and even greater in people ages 12 to 17 years. The protective impact on COVID-19 deaths, which was high for all age groups, varied more widely. In the September time frame, unvaccinated people in their 40s were 55 times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated people of the same age. Unvaccinated people aged 75 years and older were 12 times more likely to die than their vaccinated counterparts. 3. Overall, regardless of vaccination status, people in Texas were four to five times more likely to become infected with COVID-19 or suffer a COVID-19-associated death while the Delta variant was prevalent in Texas (August 2021) compared with a period before the Delta variant became prevalent (April 2021).

 

ecco

Veteran Member
Yes it is.
It's one thing to make wearing masks mandatory, and another to force people to be injected.
It's too bad you didn't bother to read my entire comment...
What extreme views have I posited? Making vaccines mandatory is not an extreme view. Almost every parent in this country and indeed in the civilized world, has accepted the concept of vaccinating their children to save them from the effects of polio and measels. That's not extreme.

See? Lots of lives have been saved because of vaccine mandates. How is it that you do not know this?
 

ecco

Veteran Member
You are nothing but a panic-mongerer.
I see you could not address the following:
  • Why do you believe citing statistics is panic-mongering?
  • On the other hand, people spreading lies about the vaccine are the ones engaging in fear-mongering.
  • Do you believe microchips get implanted in your arm when you are given the vaccine? Do you believe, without a shred of evidence beyond anecdotes, that the vaccine has killed people? There are people spreading this nonsense on RF. They are the fear-mongers.
Care to try?
 

ecco

Veteran Member
It seems to me that hyperbole and unnuanced, blanket demonization go against the very essence of rationalist and scientific thinking. Diluting the atrocity of the intentional, proactive malice involved in supporting terrorists with such a comparison is problematic at best.

How many people died 9/11? Three thousand.

The vaccines were available to all Americans around June 2021 when there were 600,000 dead. Today there are 200,000 more dead.

These people died needlessly because they refused the vaccine and got infected primarily by people who also refused the vaccine?

200,000/3000=66 September 11 terror attacks.

This is domestic terrorism.


I am not "Diluting the atrocity of the intentional, proactive malice" of the terrorists. I am elevating the intentional, proactive malice of the anti-vaxxers to (and above) the level of the 9/11 hijackers.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
People who are vaccinated can also contract the virus, so no .. it doesn't follow that it can no longer mutate.


80% of the whole world, or 80% of one particular nation?


Yes .. that's reality I'm afraid.
Compulsory vaccination in one country can't stop it running riot in another..
Are you advocating that travel in future should only be permitted from high vaccination countries?

There are many reasons why certain diseases no longer pose a major threat to mankind.
Vaccination is merely one of them.
Well, we've had vaccination requirements for travelling for many years already. It's nothing new, really.
For instance, between 1944 and 1981 the smallpox vaccine was mandatory for travel to many countries around the world. (This was lifted after smallpox was eradicated in 1980.)
Yellow Fever vaccinations are still mandatory for travel to certain countries.
Several countries require you to be vaccinated against polio before you can enter.

We've been dealing with this sort of thing for a long time now.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
Is anyone surprised? Started to look like Germany under Hitler for the Jews, er unvaccinated. What's next? A star to mark them perhaps?
Sorry, this is Nazi-like how, exactly? Please be specific. And not rhetorically or hyperbolically either.

Such comparisons are a slap in the face to the 6 million people who died at the hands of the Nazis, imo.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
Germany always had a love affair with authoritarian polices. History has proven that over the span of two world wars.
They also seem to be acutely more aware of their history in that area than most are, as teaching about the Holocaust is mandatory there. Most students are required to visit concentration camps so that nobody will forget what happened there.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
Nothing ridiculous about it. It's a fact.
"The newly released report showing that vaccinated people can still be superspreaders drove the recent decision by the CDC to once again recommend masks for vaccinated people indoors where case counts are high or substantial.
Where did you crib that sentence from? Source please.
 
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