They are still abusing their children and killing themselves and making us all foot the bill for it as they do it.
I have said many times society has the right to make decisions for children that it does not have for adults.
I think vegans are slowly killing themselves but I don't tell people what to eat.
I understand that you are saying that society doesn’t have the right to make decisions for other people by forcing them to be vaccinated.
I would like to offer this:
By refusing to be vaccinated, the unvaccinated are forcing the rest of us to live with a preventable risk to our health, our livelihoods, our enjoyment of our lives, friends, family and a preventable risk to our very lives.
Those opposing vaccine mandates are perfectly happy forcing everyone to live with their choices—which includes the following risks to children, who I think we all agree are absolute innocents in all of this.
This is what willfully unvaccinated people are more than willing to do to children:
1. Risk to their lives. While children are less likely to die of COVID, some children do die. This includes children with known underlying health conditions and children who are perfectly healthy prior to infection.
2. Risk to their short term health and unknown risks to their long term health. Again, children are less likely to become seriously ill with COVID but they are not immune to illness severe enough to require hospitalization. Because this virus is relatively new, we don’t know how long effects will last or how severe they will be or how they will affect learning, behavior and other issues. Children have many more years of life ahead of them compared with senior citizens. That’s more time to potentially live with and develop more serious long term side effects.
3. Loss of economic security as their families have jobs and income affected. This also has deleterious effects on society and acts as a destabilizer.
4. Less stability in their families. As parents and grandparents become ill, as families struggle to maintain income stability family structure is more likely to be stressed abs even fail.
5. Serious negative impacts on their education—which affects all children but children of lower income families most of all. These families are more likely to be unable to help their children with remote learning or uncertainty and lack of continuity of education.
6. Serious negative impacts on children’s social and emotional development. How will this affect children in their adolescence, adulthood? How will this affect society as a whole? We have some ideas of the deleterious effects by looking at adults who experienced childhoods during times of war or The Great Depression.
I’m sure I’m missing some.
I’m really struggling to see vaccine mandates as being more harmful than allowing people to risk infection fir themselves and fir anyone who comes into contact with them or with their contacts or their clients tacts’ck tact’s and so on. Anyone ever have to do contact tracing for exposure to say, an STI? It’s very eye opening to see the impact of one infected individual. This is much more contagious and much harder to avoid than any STI.
In the past when we’ve been faced with serious and highly contagious respiratory illnesses, we have isolated those who were infected—think TB. I was screened every year because a lab in my building sometimes had samples from people infected with TB.
So tell me again about how we are harming the rights of adults. Who are willing to destroy the lives of children for their freedumb.
I think society means balancing individual rights with the rights of everyone.
