I don't believe that there is a long term side effect. I'm 99% sure that there won't be one. However, to me, that isn't nearly sure enough that I'm willing to force people to take it. The fact is that there IS no long term data
The point is that this is not a valid argument, it’s an excuse for people who are anti-vax to pretend they’re being reasonable.
There has never been a case of an approved vaccine shown to have long term side effects nor is there a known mechanism for these vaccines to have one. This is a completely made up concern.
We’re all entitled to our feelings. We don’t have to feel safe on a plane, but saying I don’t feel safe is different from arguing that it’s not safe.
I already did, if you have natural immunity than you don't need the vaccine. Therefore any risk, no matter how small, results in a negative cost-benefit analysis.
Please provide a source that’s not YouTube, I have poor service where I normally spend on DART
Arguing that it isn't a punishment to lose your job for not wanting to take the vaccine is pure sophistry. The mandate is a stick, not a carrot.
It’s not sophistry, it’s English.
The word punishment carries a strong negative connotation for a reason. By calling it a punishment when it’s not, you’re being manipulative and intellectually dishonest because you’re using that connotation to make your point where the connotation doesn’t actually apply.
The connotation comes from the idea that the individual who’s well being is negatively impacted was the point. That this individual was essentially targeted and the hit to their well being was the intended result. That’s a good reason for anyone to get fired up. But that’s not what this is.
Mandating vaccines is about improving public health. It’s the idea that if more people get vaccinated, we will all be better off. Less people will die, less business would close, and less travelers will stay away. It’s the means by which we can get back to normal. Yes some people will lose their jobs, but those people made their choice. No one chose to die.
And there’s nothing new about this tactic, it’s the same thing pro-choice advocates do when they label pro-lifers as “anti-women”, or when pro lifers claim that pro choicers just want to murder babies. For every position there are pros and cons. Pretending that the cons are the point to label your political adversaries may work politically but we all know how dishonest it is.
And BTW, of course it’s a stick, we ran out of carrots. The vaccines were made free and readily available everywhere. We set up Q&A centers where people could talk to medical experts before deciding to take the shot, we even tried lotteries and literally paying people. If you haven’t gotten it yet, there’s nothing left for us to try.
