cracked_ribs
Well-Known Member
I'm glad the thread stays open. I'm not at all - AT ALL - against people getting vaccinated, I think everyone should be doing what they think is best for their health and every time someone gets vaccinated and weighs whatever they figure their covid risk is, against whatever they figure their side effect risk is, and opt for the vaccine, I think it's great and I am super happy for anyone who gets the shots and feels good about it.
But the big thing for me is that I think a place for discussion has to be kept open everywhere, because you never know when the official line on something will turn out to be wrong. And if you don't allow discussion of something, it's way harder to figure out when that's happening.
The lab leak hypothesis is a perfect example. It took a really long time for that to gain traction because it was getting scrubbed from sites and platforms all over the internet. That's a gigantic disservice because it may be true, and the people who dismissed it as a conspiracy theory were, in reality, conspiring (!) to prevent discussion of the possibility.
My genuine hope is that people like Robert Malone (who is one of a bunch of scientists who did groundbreaking research on the early applications of mRNA technology and who does have a legitimate claim to massive expertise in this field) are wrong and that there is nothing to worry about with this vaccine. But we won't really know for a while, and I hate the idea that the best thing to do is not let anyone talk about it.
I do think people should be civil to each other and I don't think people should align into "pro-vax" and "anti-vax" teams because I think EVERYONE should just be on the "think critically about each step that could be taken to eliminate covid" team, and that may result in a lot of vaccination and it may result in different drug trials and it may result in masking etc etc etc.
Personally, since I'm not vaccinated, I mask up inside everywhere I go because I don't want other people to pay the price (even theoretically, I'm pretty low risk to contract anything but epoxy lung) for my decision not to take this vaccine yet. You can have concerns about this vaccine without being "anti-vax" or "anti-science" or "anti-anything" really. I'm not anti-vax at all. I got vaccinated for something else last week. I have a bunch of vaccinations most people don't because of places I've gone. I'm pro-vaccine as a thing. In this specific case I'm adopting a bit of a wait-and-see approach. I don't give people a hard time about their decisions, even if they're the exact opposite of mine, and I don't see myself as part of a "team" that is trying to stop people from doing anything. I want everyone to be free to act in the manner they feel is most likely to secure their health. I don't think anyone can make those decisions well if we don't have free and open communication. That doesn't have to be on Sportfishing BC or anything, specifically, but I just like to be able to openly talk about any major thing we're all facing, wherever.
But the big thing for me is that I think a place for discussion has to be kept open everywhere, because you never know when the official line on something will turn out to be wrong. And if you don't allow discussion of something, it's way harder to figure out when that's happening.
The lab leak hypothesis is a perfect example. It took a really long time for that to gain traction because it was getting scrubbed from sites and platforms all over the internet. That's a gigantic disservice because it may be true, and the people who dismissed it as a conspiracy theory were, in reality, conspiring (!) to prevent discussion of the possibility.
My genuine hope is that people like Robert Malone (who is one of a bunch of scientists who did groundbreaking research on the early applications of mRNA technology and who does have a legitimate claim to massive expertise in this field) are wrong and that there is nothing to worry about with this vaccine. But we won't really know for a while, and I hate the idea that the best thing to do is not let anyone talk about it.
I do think people should be civil to each other and I don't think people should align into "pro-vax" and "anti-vax" teams because I think EVERYONE should just be on the "think critically about each step that could be taken to eliminate covid" team, and that may result in a lot of vaccination and it may result in different drug trials and it may result in masking etc etc etc.
Personally, since I'm not vaccinated, I mask up inside everywhere I go because I don't want other people to pay the price (even theoretically, I'm pretty low risk to contract anything but epoxy lung) for my decision not to take this vaccine yet. You can have concerns about this vaccine without being "anti-vax" or "anti-science" or "anti-anything" really. I'm not anti-vax at all. I got vaccinated for something else last week. I have a bunch of vaccinations most people don't because of places I've gone. I'm pro-vaccine as a thing. In this specific case I'm adopting a bit of a wait-and-see approach. I don't give people a hard time about their decisions, even if they're the exact opposite of mine, and I don't see myself as part of a "team" that is trying to stop people from doing anything. I want everyone to be free to act in the manner they feel is most likely to secure their health. I don't think anyone can make those decisions well if we don't have free and open communication. That doesn't have to be on Sportfishing BC or anything, specifically, but I just like to be able to openly talk about any major thing we're all facing, wherever.
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