Afaik even the science argument is not that valid because the science had caught up with covid-19 pretty early on and the vaccine was theoretically ready way sooner than it was production ready. The whole problem with the pandemic was capitalism and terrible western education.
Honestly it pissed me off the way the vaccine was dealt with, and I say this as a biologist and medical researcher.
If we had a scientifically educated population, we could’ve started mass vaccinations months before we had solid data on if they worked. With the mRNA vaccines, we were like >95% sure they’d work from like day 1, and there was no point at which the potential risks of the vaccine ever outweighed the potential risks of getting Covid. Even with no trials on the vaccine, it was a no brainer to take it instead of risking Covid.
Obviously you still run trials, make sure it does in fact work, but we could’ve had most people already vaccinated by the time we knew for sure.
Also obviously vaccines should be mandatory, the easier way to do that is to block necessary services behind a check, but I would even support fully “We will hold you in this chair and put a needle in your arm” if that’s what it came to.
"We will hold you in this chair and put a needle in your arm"
I'm so over giving anti-vaxxers a choice. If you don't want to take the shot, your ass gets deported to a quarantine zone, your kids will be taken away from you and vaxxed, and you aren't coming out until you either accept the shot or the disease is eradicated completely everywhere else in the world. The right-wing conspiracy theories of FEMA camps will become a reality and they'd find out what authoritarianism really means.
This is probably why I'm not in charge of anything.
Afaik even the science argument is not that valid because the science had caught up with covid-19 pretty early on and the vaccine was theoretically ready way sooner than it was production ready. The whole problem with the pandemic was capitalism and terrible western education.
If every developed nation had reacted like China did, millions of lives could have been spared.
COVID really ramped up the Victims Of Capitalism body count.
our states are uwu smol beans that can only violently repress labour movements, they have no capability to enforce covid policy.
actually, i'm not even sarcastic, neoliberalism has hollowed the state out to such a degree that they're incapable.
It was really cool the way the western press used the Chinese response to push "evil authoritarian gommunism" narratives.
In no way did that contribute to blowback when their governments tried a much more tepid response later on. Not a chance.
Honestly it pissed me off the way the vaccine was dealt with, and I say this as a biologist and medical researcher.
If we had a scientifically educated population, we could’ve started mass vaccinations months before we had solid data on if they worked. With the mRNA vaccines, we were like >95% sure they’d work from like day 1, and there was no point at which the potential risks of the vaccine ever outweighed the potential risks of getting Covid. Even with no trials on the vaccine, it was a no brainer to take it instead of risking Covid.
Obviously you still run trials, make sure it does in fact work, but we could’ve had most people already vaccinated by the time we knew for sure.
Also obviously vaccines should be mandatory, the easier way to do that is to block necessary services behind a check, but I would even support fully “We will hold you in this chair and put a needle in your arm” if that’s what it came to.
I'm so over giving anti-vaxxers a choice. If you don't want to take the shot, your ass gets deported to a quarantine zone, your kids will be taken away from you and vaxxed, and you aren't coming out until you either accept the shot or the disease is eradicated completely everywhere else in the world. The right-wing conspiracy theories of FEMA camps will become a reality and they'd find out what authoritarianism really means.
This is probably why I'm not in charge of anything.