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Jesserae posted...

Vaccine doesn't stop you from getting it, doesn't stop you from spreading it, so why are they running on a narrative of getting vaccinated to protect others?

Except it absolutely does reduce both of those risks, just not by enough of a margin to rely exclusively on them, and that's really only true for Omicron (and actually means "we should go back to locking everything down," not the "we should stop caring about vaccinations and also stop restricting anything" agenda people are trying to push with it). Delta is still around and isn't directly competing with Omicron because of how immunologically different it is, plus future variants may be more susceptible to vaccines and/or future vaccines may be more effective against Omicron. On top of that, the reduction in personal risk reduces the strain on the health care system (both from treating cases and from dealing with long Covid), so it's still strongly advisable from a public health perspective.

Jesserae posted...

For those already in a high risk category. why exactly would we want to reduce transmission in low risk groups when natural immunity has been proven so effective?

Because vaccination on top of natural immunity is even better.

Jesserae posted...

Still no acknowledgment or explanation to the reduced global mortality compared to the last decade?

Without researching that at all (since it's a very complex topic that would require pretty extensive research to come up with anything credible and reducing it to a single number captures basically none of the nuance that would make that effort worthwhile), I'd guess advances in HIV and Malaria treatment/prevention have been major factors (malaria being the leading cause of death globally), plus broader improvements in medicine overall. Perhaps more saliently, though, any comparisons you make using those figures should be done by looking at long-term trends, not picking two data points out of the air.

Jesserae posted...

$350 million in damages from far left "peaceful protests" in Minneapolis alone, 140 cities participated in these "peaceful protests", I think 25 people that died as a result wouldn't exactly call them peaceful. The far left in America is larger than the entire population of my country.

"Police should stop killing non-violent criminals for no reason" isn't exactly a far left position by the rest of the world's standards, even without getting into the fact that the vast majority of BLM protests caused no such damage and the efforts to characterize the entire movement as a bunch of violent riots are blatant propaganda circulated by the sort of people who don't see a problem with innocent black people being murdered.

The_Viscount posted...

The odds of a woman filing a false police report against you as part of a constructive eviction (or a retaliatory effort) are generally far higher than an unplanned pregnancy where precautions are actually being taken (rather than just claiming they're being taken). Especially because some police officers and other people within the system suggest it as a course of action

I gave you numbers, you gave me misogynistic fearmongering on an unrelated subject. Again, I'm not sure where your intense, blanket distrust of women comes from, but it really doesn't seem very healthy.