I have personally tried to talk people into getting vaccinated who believe kooky stuff. I think everybody who isn't medically ineligible or under 12 should get vaccinated. If they don't listen to me or don't listen to others, how can I continue to care? They've made their (IMO bad) decision and now they have to live with it.
There’s plenty of sadness to go around. Your post and others like it are, to me at least, highly dispiriting. I see your attitude as akin to denying sympathy to drug addicts or those with self-inflicted lung cancer.
Regardless of how island like or isolated any of those places are (which IMO all are pretty well isolated, i.e. can control their border pretty easily), none of them eliminated COVID-19 using any mitigation measures.
As you well know.. if the person is not receptive to listening to other points of view.. especially where we will all pay the price in the long run, they will not read most of your post, and no chance on reading the link you provided. I read the link you provided and to this day don’t understand people’s ” well , I don’t care because I’m vaccinated , what happens to them I don’t care about”. Not only is it horrible to think of a fellow human like that, whether they are conspiracy theorists or just don’t want it, but not thinking it hurts us all in the long run. Everyone should get the shot.. it’s safe.. it’s effective.. it can save your life or someone else’s.
Agreed. For me it's sad to see such a low vaccination rate and how many don't care to get vaccinated. For me living in a neighboring country, the attitude towards vaccines in one country versus the other is crazy. Here people are getting vaccinated cause we want this to end.
Their mitigation measures were highly effective. Compare their numbers to those of the UK, which actually is separated from the mainland and, being on the other side of the world, had several weeks extra to mount its response.
I know several, and perhaps that’s why I remain sympathetic to them and others like them.
I don’t think someone’s “core beliefs” are manifested in their willingness or otherwise to get the vaccine. No doubt there are millions of good people who have been fooled into believing that they shouldn’t be vaccinated.
It all started with...
"The heat , humidity and sunlight kills the corona virus." Fortunately all with a brain knew better..
And all the religious leaders who have been misleading their flocks should be ashamed of themselves and no longer be allowed to preach.
Nor would it be appropriate for this forum... so why bring it up?
I didn’t like him and I still wanted to beleive it! I figured he was being a bit optimisitic and the doctors / scientists were being a bit pessimistic and the reality would be in the middle. But.... not so. :-/