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I'm not. The fact that Pfizer and Moderna requested immunity protections from the government to make them unliable for any damage from their vaccine makes me sketched out. Plus, I'm a second year college student with no pre-existing conditions. This virus has a 99.86% survival rate and around 0.9-1% IFR (this is being conservative Johnny Oannidas said he thought it was around 0.5-0.6%).
I don't need a vaccine for something not that serious like this. What I'm worried is they're going to make this shit mandatory like they did with the small pox vaccine. People love that court decision, but just because it was agreed upon in the past, doesn't mean it was a correct decision. SCOTUS ruled Obamacare as constitutional, and it doesn't take a scholar to realize that decision was horse shit. I'm referring to Jacobson vs. Massachusetts btw if you want to read the case.
What are y'all thoughts? I know eric July is also saying he won't take the vaccine. I'm not anti-vaxx btw. If you wanna take the vaccine, take it. I just have a problem if they can force you to take it. This type of immunity protection is unprecedented, and no amount of rationale can convince my skepticism of big pharma. It's not like government granted it to them. Big pharma wouldn't do the contract if government didn't give it to them.
Some are saying employers could make it mandatory. That would suck ass, and obviously they have the right to do so even if it's shitty. However, could you just lie and say you got it? How could they prove you did or didn't? Also, even though we all agree anti-discrimination laws and parts of the civil rights act of 1964 are bullshit, it doesn't change the fact they apply currently. Couldn't you argue anti-discrimination or religious beliefs or something for an exception to not taking the vaccine? And the employer couldn't discriminate against you?