So hypothetically what if some politician, say Boris, told a pharmaceutical company to make a vaccine that would stop Covid in it’s tracks? It doesn’t matter what the long term effects of the vaccine might be because a couple of years down the line nobody will link the vaccine to illnesses that appear to be completely unrelated. So the company cobble together a vaccine in six months and ignore the correct testing period and unleash it on the general public.
Boris is happy and takes the credit for stopping covid, and the pharma company make lots of money…
So let me ask you one thing Lincs…If I take your advice and get vaccinated, and have serious side effects or even death…Will you support my wife and my daughter?
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so hypothetically if the government made no effort to protect us from a new dangerous virus and you ended up nearly dying and then having a heart condition from contracting that virus which completely changes your life then would that be ok?
Imagine responsibility as a mountain…At the top is you followed by your family and loved ones.
The further down the mountain you descend, your responsibility diminishes.
Trying to further a discussion by accusing someone of a lack of responsibility suggests that you are taking the high moral ground and just virtue signalling…Do you think that people you don’t know care about you? Yes, we do have a responsibility to fellow humans, but lets not ignore our priorities.
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No it wouldn’t be alright Annie, but ultimately I want the choice and not be intimidated by being cast out of society for making that choice…
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OGF I had very bad side effects from the first vaccine. But a lot of people I know who didn’t have the vaccine and then contracted covid are either no longer with us or have long term health problems. I’ve had friends who were in intensive care having never been sick before. Covid itself was a very nasty virus when it first appeared. I think it’s a bit of a lottery with a lot of these illnesses. Some recover, others have life changing consequences. I don’t regret having the first two rounds of vaccines, but I don’t continue to have them every year. It was an exceptional situation.
With measles I totally sympathise with those who do not want an MMR jab, but I would agree with single jabs completely because the illness is extremely nasty in some cases, leading to life-long disability or death. Similarly Polio.
I am happy that we no longer have to fear smallpox. I hope that doesn’t make a return. I do agree that it’s an industry and I do agree with a right to choice, but if you choose not to have a vaccine there are consequences to society. I don’t think it’s a black and white yes/no issue where one person is right or wrong.
I can see the whole supply chain we have disintegrating the way things are going so we may have to deal with these horrible disease outbreaks more and more.
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Nope, its a molehill surrounded by millions of other molehills.
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No, it was mostly developed two decades ago with the last 90’s SARS epidemic. And at least 6 companies were independently developing the same vaccine - so not something made up in a few weeks by just one company. Yes, the full testing was accelerated - but given the death rate from Covid this was judged to be a worthwhile risk.
Anyway, this post is about measles. The vaccine for which is very, very safe and came close to eradicating the disease. Then along came some hippy-dippies who listened a rogue doctor’s fake paper…
I’m sorry to hear about your deceased friends and the ones suffering long covid. I would never recommend that people don’t have vaccines, I myself have had all the childhood vaccines available at the time and I would still recommend that my children have theirs (I did) but I strongly believe that all vaccines are not a silver bullet, and I reserve the right to pick and choose. I agree Annie, it’s not all black and white, contrary to what some people think, the establishment do not always have your best interests at heart, and to think they do is very naive.
People should do their homework before administering anything into their systems, it’s not like their isn’t a wealth of information out there nowadays.
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Not at all Lincs, I think my description is more accurate.
In my case anyway…
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But there were more death after the COVID vaccine out. The vaccine did not stop the spread of COVID, it did not immune anyone from catching COVID and it was never proven to reduce the severity of COVID.
Your talking about Dr. Fauci right.
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There’s also a wealth of misinformation and disinformation out there.
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That video was produced by the Heartland Institute, which is an American conservative and libertarian 501(c)(3) nonprofit public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.
Founded in 1984, it worked with tobacco company Philip Morris throughout the 1990s to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and lobby against smoking bans. Since the 2000s, the Heartland Institute has been a leading promoter of climate change denial.
Some people choose to get their information from government entities such as the Heartland Institute rather than from scientists, and that’s their prerogative, but it’s dangerous when elected leaders choose to ignore science and get information from people who benefit financially from misinformation.
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it’s funny how nobody questions the harm of cigarette smoking these days.
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We wouldn’t dare Annie… 
I smoked 15 fags a day for 35 years and there’s nothing wrong with my lungs…
There are also a lot of doctors and people you thought you could trust, telling you a load of bullocks out there…
Everyone has a price…
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What about the rest of your body and damage done by all those fags?
I seem to remember you gave up after your first heart attack - is that right?
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Well I have had a small problem with my heart, but it might not have been caused by the fags LongDriver…
That’s correct Annie, I haven’t had one since 2004.
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