My parents have definitely been scared by the “pandemic” and are super excited that they are able to get the vaccine next month.
Predictably, the question becomes, “when are you going to get the vaccine shot?” I’ve told them about my concerns with the vaccine back in November, and they seemed to agree back then, but it appears the COVID panic has grown into paranoia for them since then. I live in another state for a job, so I have told them that “I’m young so they aren’t giving vaccines out to my demographic yet,” though that excuse isn’t going to last. Honestly, we’ve been planning for me to visit them, and now it seems as though they are at the point where they won’t want me to visit unless I am vaccinated like them.
I’m standing my ground on my refusal to take the vaccine, as the risk outweighs the benefits in my opinion, but I think that my refusal will be the turning point of my relationship with my parents. It’s absurd to think that not taking a vaccine for a disease with a 99% survival rate would be what causes my family to not want to see me in person, but their fear of COVID (they are under 70) might be strong enough to where they give me that ultimatum. I hope it doesn’t come to that point, but I’m bracing myself for it. Most likely I will be seen as paranoid and being ridiculous, but I would rather not submit to that pressure.
Make no mistake, I’m not looking for advice, I just wanted to give a little backstory to my question to the the forum. For those of you who are skeptical of the vaccine and plan on refusing to take it, are you already seeing the relationship between your family, extended or otherwise, strained because of this? If the vaccine question hasn’t come up, do you foresee your stance on the vaccine causing your family to think more negatively of you or strain the family relationship?
I’m not a professional or expert (though frankly experts and professionals these days are increasingly useless), but I would advise those skeptical of a vaccine with less than a year of development to stand your ground on this issue as a matter of your own personal health. The pandemic has shined a blacklight on the nature of those in power around the world, and to place absolute trust in these institutions would be unwise. Stay strong in your resolve!
Yes, but I think my family is not prepared to take the vaccine yet.
This isn't the first time that Scientism went completely awry and hurt lots of innocent people. This and the puberty blockers fad will likely go the way of Eugenics, Lobotomies, Cure-alls, and Thalidomide.
The good news is, after a few years, they'll probably have a working vaccine with known effects. I'm just going to wait until they sort all that shit out for themselves.
Eugenics was a good idea and I'll fight you to the death over that.
How?
It's more mutable than the common flu.
How will they have a single stable vaccine for it when they currently cannot even create a vaccine that specifically targets the viral infection itself?
Eugenics was never a good idea because a) it didn't actually reflect biological or genetic realities, it depended on abstract measures of some genetic traits, though the abstraction was generally defined by environmental factors. And b) the last humans on Earth that should be trusted with the right to decide who has the right to breed is a committee of Progressive Scientismists/Technocrats.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm saying that they will create a vaccine / series of vaccines that are fairly reliable and have relatively few side effects given enough time. I'm just not convinced that we're at that point yet.
Ahem.
WRONG.
What you're talking about is negative eugenics, and subjective biology.
There are in fact objectively inferior traits. There are in fact objectively inferior behaviors. There are in fact objectively inferior genetic markers.
The issue in the past was that groups took advantage of the idea of eugenics to justify a system of control.
Instead, positive eugenics is the acknowledgment of evolution as a system of generational advancement. Action and influence must be taken to guide individuals and families towards a superior outcome.
We KNOW that certain behaviors are bad. We KNOW that certain behaviors are good. We also know that certain bloodlines have more potential, and some have less.
The goal is to give people the tools they need to best create a future for themselves and their posterity.
I'm not.
I'm saying you're a fool for believing this when they cannot currently do it with the common flu.
There is no evidence to suggest that the chinese flu will be any different from the normal african flu.
No, there aren't, ask a geneticist. You simply asserting that something is inferior does not make it so. Something that may or may not be useful can't be known to be evolutionarily useful until the animal encounters an environment where that utility may present itself. The utility is purely dependent on the conditions of the environment, which are many and varying.
That is what eugenics is: a system of population control and technocratic breeding regimens by self-appointed visionaries... typically progressives who are just oh so much smarter than everyone because they are the absolute pinnacle of their evolutionary line. That's why their were progressive intellectuals.
"good" or "bad" depending on what? Evolution and genetics make no such decisions. And those decisions should never be left up to self-anointed visionaries who think they know what's best for society despite constantly being proven that they don't know shit.
They already have that. It's called a brain. Don't stick your dick in crazy, and don't spread your legs for worthless men.
No, I don't think you understand what I'm saying, and in fairness that might be my fault. They already do do what I'm saying with the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine is yearly, fairly reliable, and fairly safe.