I don't understand where this black and white thinking is coming from. The vaccine is proven to reduce the risk of infection and reduce the risk of transmission and reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by a huge amount. This is well established, so I don't know what you're going on about.
When people are dying all over and our healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, why would you opt not to take the most basic precautions against making the crisis worse? I honestly cannot understand where this stubborn insistence on irresponsible behavior comes from.
How do you derive "black and white" thinking from my post? I'd argue that you and the poster I replied to are the ones thinking that way, not me. I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any means. I believe that any high-risk individuals should get vaccinated, along with anyone else who feels the need. I've always felt the exact same way about flu shots, which as far as I know were never really politicized.
Fair enough, I apologize for reading that into your comment. The difference is that COVID is far more deadly than the flu and often requires intensive care, so the impact on families who lose family members as well as the health-care system as a whole is completely different. That's why I think that there's a stronger case to be made that getting vaccinated and wearing masks is a social responsibility. If everyone was vaccinated, then maybe it would actually be "just like the flu", but unfortunately we never got there.
When people are dying all over and our healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, why would you opt not to take the most basic precautions against making the crisis worse? I honestly cannot understand where this stubborn insistence on irresponsible behavior comes from.