Originally Posted by
TheVBs
What's missing here is the reality that getting vaccinated is not just about protecting ourselves, it's about protecting other people too. It's about removing the option for a larger host community for the virus to mutate in. Now, there are people who genuinely don't have the option to get the vaccine, even if they want to. And there are people who are afraid to get the vaccine - and I'm going to acknowledge here that the media has not entirely helped this situation. However, one missing component of nearly every argument I've seen for people who don't want to get vaccinated, is the acknowledgement that it would help other people. There's always the ready acknowledgement that they themselves, the individual, are willing to take that risk. But never an acknowledgement that they might, or likely will, impact someone else's health or mortality. It wraps right back around to that statement on this forum that utterly shocked me. "Why would I care about protecting you? I don't even know your name." This is a serious deficit in our society. And while I liked and thanked PopPhan's comment about the reality of the original post not being impacted, I also do not see this as bickering. These conversations can be had respectfully and they need to be.