I'm still wary on the vaccine, because I know people in my family with severe adverse reactions immediately after taking it. I do not want to live with all the mandate/pressuring crap. I'll stay in my fucking house most of the time, and even if people see me as some sort of "subhuman" for not taking the shots, I just don't want to be denied any necessities or access to help in the future, and my livelihood taken away all together. This shit feels like Nazi Germany, and I really hope we do not go the way Germany, Austria, Italy, and Australia currently are. Regardless of the "choice issue", I'm seeing people in developed worlds blame impoverished African countries for Omicron, as if they're some sort of lesser class of human beings for not having access to vaccines, which brings me to my point on how this became a heavily classist issue.
It's not a class issue. It's definitely not like Nazi Germany where people were being shot in pits meant as mass graves and murdered in concentration camps; it's slap in the face of people who survived and lived through the turmoil in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Austria compare vaccines meant to save your life to the repression and mass murder that happened. At best, you're being dramatic.
The worst side effects are mild and last for a few days; my girlfriend, my roommate (who's had respiratory issues), and I got vaccinated plus our boosters and we're still alive. I don't know the medical histories of your relatives, but if they did get sick after the vaccination, that's probably a good thing since that means their bodies are producing the antibodies to mitigate an actual COVID infection, which will keep them out of the hospital and from dying.
Part of the reason we're still dealing with this infection here in the States is because people aren't getting vaccinated either due to being misinformed and not bothering to do their homework or because of political reasons, despite the fact it was good enough for Trump to get and the fact that Operation Warp Speed was one of the few things he did right with respect to the pandemic. Most of the people dying right during the pandemic are unvaccinated; you're not seeing hundreds of thousands people dying from the vaccine, are you?
Things in the global south need to be improved, mainly by the developed nations donating more vaccine consignments and the pharmaceutical companies making some accommodations on an emergency basis. Most people here don't see them as subhuman, though, for not having access to the vaccines.
However, there is an important lesson here. Unvaccinated populations will serve as an incubator to new variants of this virus until they are vaccinated and that put everyone everywhere at risk eventually. So people here and everywhere need to vaccinated and boosted so we finally get back to business as usual.
If you're choosing not to be vaccinated, you need to recognize that will impact your access to social assistance, healthcare, working opportunities, and recreation activities because you don't have a right to put people at risk in those settings, particularly those who can't be vaccinated currently due to legitimate medical reasons.
You've just got to live with that.
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