Originally posted by IUPalum
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1. Re: The safety of vaccine: Many brilliant scientists developed the vaccine and others have independently reviewed the findings. I think 30,000 volunteers were in the study. The virus is dead and the technique that was newly developed has great promise for other diseases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/h...ne-pfizer.html
2. Re: Side effects of vaccine: It appears to be no worse than getting the advanced two dose shingles shot.
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-prepar...vid-19-vaccine
Compare these vaccine side effects with the long-term effects of getting COVID19 without the vaccine:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...t%20arrhythmia.
3. "half of the country think it is a hoax"..
Your statement on the percentage may be true and is the root cause for the spike IMHO. Technically, this is not logical reasoning, but a statement of belief without supporting evidence.
This is a type of fallacious reasoning called "appeal to belief"
https://bigthink.com/experts-corner/...belief-fallacy
Europe and many other countries are experiencing a surge too.
Just a few exceptions. Such as Taiwan and South Korea.
South Korea has sophisticated contact tracing and 14 day quarantines on everyone entering country at visitor's expense. That is the structural impediment to USA containing the virus IMHO. Our contact tracing is terrible.
5. Re: Selfishness...- Unlike Taiwan and South Korea, I agree many in USA are selfish humanists who live only for themselves and not for others. In USA individuals don't want a supreme leader to infringe on their freedom (other than the nanny state advocates). I totally support that philosophy.
If people irrationally choose to not take the vaccine, then the insurance risk should not be shared by the rest of us. Let them have the responsibility to pay out of pocket for their hospitalization for their freedom of choice(30 days in ICU is $1M).
6. Re: Shutting down the country- IMHO It is not an option:
Here is why we cannot shut down the country again. You will never hear this mentioned by the media or by either party.
Basically, the USA is broke. Santa Claus has left the building.
We are like a good time Charlie who appears to be wealthy but who has a rapidly increasing, out-of-control unpaid credit card balance that is going for food and rent.
each taxpayer`s share is $965K each.
We are the largest debtor nation and our debt-to-GDP ratio is approaching that of Greece when it collapsed. 44% of workers are paying zero taxes and 65% are not college grads. Yet we increase the number of unskilled, uneducated workers, while at the same time AI and robotics are on the verge of wiping out millions of unskilled jobs (truck drivers, restaurants, cleaning services, etc.) and swamp politicians have outsourced millions of middle class jobs (Annual trade deficit is $105B with Mexico and $300B to China).
Only zero interest rates are delaying the day of reckoning.
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