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Because the unvaccinated are:

1) Filling ICUs and taking up other hospital resources unnecessarily. Leaves that for people who are injured in accidents.

2) Dying. We don't want our fellow humans dying. Only anti-social jerks don't care if their fellow humans die from easily preventable causes.

3) Carrying larger viral loads for longer.

> their bodily choices?

If it were only their body it wouldn't be a much of an issue. However, it's not just their body. See above.



1) Fair point on ICU beds.

2) Yes, but lots of people make personal choices that cause their own premature death. We aren't muzzling obese people for trumpeting the values of an all-bacon diet.

3) True, but this circles back to the fact that vaccinated people also carry viral loads and if you get infected while vaccinated it's much less severe so it almost negates any longer term carrying argument.

The real point of contention is the unvaccinated taking up resources that vaccinated people need because if you're in the hospital for covid then you're running your life like an idiot and I can't get my broken leg fixed from when I broke it doing parkour last weekend.


Except that the unvaccinated are doing in en mass, if there were 1/2 a million deaths from parkour us pro-social people would be screaming about it too.

In the end staying unvaccinated for no real reason (mah freedoms! is not a real reason, nor is any other misinformed gibberish like 'it's not a real vaccine' or 'I don't want to be in the experiment') is antisocial and should be squashed as any other antisocial behaviour like graffiti, stabbing car tires, sucker punching strangers, puking in doorways, dine and dash, etc... Yea yea yea, some of those are actual crimes. But that's not my point. It's selfish and unnecessary. Shame, shame, shame.


What's the R0 of an all-bacon diet?

Infectious disease is just that: infectious.

It doesn't stay put. It travels, from host to host. And the more the hosts act in a manner to promote that transmission, the further, faster, and harder it spreads.




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