Since this seems to be a side thread about maybe critiques of COVID-19 vaccine, I think what has been most frustrating is that there are non medical elements of the situation that, because they conflict with the idea of keeping everybody safe, are dismissed. I understand the fear and I agree with the premise of protecting society.
Some of the concerns regarding lockdown, mandating vaccines and other things that have resulted from this bring up the precedence this actions are setting on a global level. So the issue, for a lot of people, have nothing to do with safety of the vaccine and the science behind what actions public health admins are using to negate this.
It is the potential consequences of, say, further giving permissions to surveillance capitalism by having vaccination digital passports, the introduction of digital currency and slow elimination of paper currency that could result in pitched ideas of the economy where governments "grant"stimulus money that expires if you don't use it after a certain amount of time thereby making saving capital harder.
The lockdowns, while well intentioned, have resulted in work from home being the default for a lot of companies and allowed people to move to cheaper areas and make those areas unaffordable. We are also now going to see stagflation because of shutting down the supply chain for so long, although, that likely would have happened harder and faster if we hadn't so I don't think that could have been avoided.
I just think it is difficult to discuss this topic because there are a lot of impacts of the decisions we have made that are leading to unwanted outcomes, and a lot of the people who point these things out are shut down as crazy. I think these things need to be discussed. It is not about what is right or wrong it is that there are consequences to the unusual measures we are accepting because of an unusual situation and we need to examine the long term impact of it.
Taiwan suspends 2nd Pfizer vaccine for 12-17
