NotSpaghetti
Well, for what it's worth, I'm with nightowl on this.
I have had the vaccine as it happens but I think it's a right to not have it - just as I think we shouldn't be forced to drink fluoridated water. We have a right to refuse or accept medical care.
If there is a law (driving on the left for example) and we choose to ignore it, we know there are consequences. Other people may think us stupid or selfish but we also have the right not to explain.
I find all the stuff about Bill Gates frankly ridiculous but there may be some counter-vaccine info out there that isn't so absurd. I'm open to looking at it, though as I said, I've already had two doses.
If people feel uncomfortable accepting the vaccine but don't really know why, then it's fair to offer them the best research we can to allay their fears, but, if having thought about it they still don't want it, that's their choice. Their right to refuse.
Let's not lump everyone together please. Let's try to respect those who have given some thought to this but just aren't reconciled to having it. And don't forget, sometimes as we do something we know isn't good for us, sometimes we may want to reject something that actually may be.
I haven't seen anybody on here "lump everyone together". I had my first AZ before the sinus thrombosis risk was identified and I had to do some hard thinking and research about whether to have the second so I do understand in some part, people's legitimate concerns.
Again as I have said before, throughout my career, now retired I have fought again and again against decisions being made "in people's best interests" without respecting the agency of the person. I have stood out against forcible diets for fat people with strokes "to make them easier to manage", I have reported a nurse for trying to make home carers refuse to buy chocolate for a diebetic, similarly I have defended people's rights to have wildly alternative homes including the bird loving couple who lived in the middle of a wood and kept their windows open winter and summer so the birds could nest in the house....it was a magical, if chilly place to visit.
BUT I can't respect people who base their decisions on stuff like "Bill Gates is microchipping us"
I will respect their choice, as they must respect the consequences of that choice. Even idiots should have agency over their own bodies.