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[–] [email protected] 90 points 9 months ago (30 children)

The fact that freedom in the US is conflated with not getting the vaccine is incomprehensible. Something like vaccination should be mandatory with very limited exceptions for truly legitimate cases.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm old and I remember you just got your little shot card filled up before you went to school and that was that.

I love vaccines. I get any one I can.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I treat vaccines like pokemon...gotta catch em all. If someone offers me a vaccine, I'll take it, even if it's for something rare. I just want to be immunized against as many things as possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You still need that card. My kid would not be allowed into school without it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh thank goodness.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (31 children)

There's a saying I want to make famous: "One man's freedom ends where another's begins." Your freedom not to take a vaccine only lasts as long as it does not affect your neighbor's rights to live and breathe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a popular phrase already

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I usually hear it as "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose."

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

But you can't read books by black and/or gay authors in some states. The right only likes to cherry pick the freedoms.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 13 points 9 months ago

They've become very anti freedom in fact. Unless it has something to do with a major lobby like guns, or letting corporations pollute air and water, they pretty much are pro restrictions on most things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

you can't buy alcohol in some counties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

"I wanna make a medical choice about my own body..."

The Right: "Ummm...hold on now..."

"And skip my vaccinations!"

The Right: "Oh! You scared me for a second! Carry on then."

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Heck, I had to fight to get the vaccine in my country.

I was working at a food bank during covid. I was coming face to face with 200 different people every day. Many of whom were covid positive but because they were homeless they had no where else to go.

I have a genetic condition that effects my sympathetic nervous system. I have sinus bradycardia, and chronic pulmonary congestion due to having over 10 bouts of aspiration pneumonia. On top of this I have an autoimmune condition. I was taking immunosuppression therapy in March 2020, I stopped taking because I couldn't risk my immune system being suppressed in my line of work. I was so sick because of my untreated autoimmune condition, but I just had to deal with it.

In October we started rolling out the vaccine to our most vulnerable populous. I was eligible because of my autoimmune condition and I was first in line at my local vaccination centre.

But my genetic condition was on the list of contraindications. They were just going to send me away until I broke down crying explaining my job and my risk and my fear of catching covid. So I had to get two doctors to sign off on me getting the vaccine, and I had to make a special vaccine booking because they needed an NP to do a pre-screening and then I had to wait around for 3 hours afterwards and then get a post-vaccination check up and the NP had to sign off.

My booster shots were easier, because I just took my proof of vaccination certificate to the pharmacy and I didn't even mention my underlying conditions. (I didn't have that luxury the first time. I had to hand over my medical records to prove I was eligible for the first round of vaccinations. But after my first jab, the fact I had gotten my first dose was proof enough that I was previously approved to be part of the first round, so I didn't need to present my records to get my boosters)

Trying to get an appointment with two separate doctors during a global pandemic for some red tape paperwork was like pulling teeth.

It should not have been that hard for someone to get a vaccine when they want one. I understood the risks. I'd rather die of a vaccine interaction that helps provide information that makea the vaccine safer for others, than just be another statistic of covid 19.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I'm honestly surprised the US isn't like this just given how powerful big pharma is there

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Vaccine darts would be a huge boon to public health.

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