Laid out en claire, to relay to your prop-suckered acquaintances:
Of all the lines in this article, this one strikes me most forcefully:
“Why, given that natural immunity has never ultimately failed humanity, do we suddenly not trust it?”
Why indeed? Shysters-on-the-make is the obvious front-runner answer.
BTW, despite the headline, the piece offers more than ten reasons. Value for money!
Well, my husband and I can be part of the study because we got the Moderna shot today. Didn’t want to but I did it. Will let you know if we develop side effects.
I am sympathetic to your arguments against the public health measures and the vaccine but being sheepish, I am following public guidelines. Others in my family are not so we’ll see where it goes. I would never try to convince someone to not go with their gut instinct on this.
I do regret the divisiveness but twas ever thus for big moral decisions that affect society, and there’s no alternative in these cases. Very much like wartime.