Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
Whilst I did opt to be fully vaccinated, I think this decision is the correct one.
Mandatory vaccination and the frenzy of misinformation regarding the unvaccinated is atrocious.
The unvaccinated will not hinder those of us choosing to be vaccinated and should not suffer any discrimination.
All this hoopla for a disease that worldwide has killed 0.03% of the population. Most of those elderly and with underlying (even if not known) conditions.
The unvaccinated are already hindering those of us who have chosen to be vaccinated. Ask the doctors working in hospitals in Melbourne and Sydney about the cancellation of elective surgery and all but the most urgent surgery. Substantial delays and deferrals are already happening, it's not a hypothetical "at some point if there is a surge" problem.
And regarding your claim that covid has killed 0.03% of the population, the death toll in the USA has just passed 700,000, with a population of 333,460,200 or so, so that is 0.2% of the US population killed by covid and that death toll is rising - 100% of the US population has not been infected/exposed to covid yet. So you're off by a factor of almost 7 there, and it will get worse - there were just over 118,000 new cases reported in the USA on the 1st of October alone, the average is around 100,000 new cases per day at the moment. That's in a first world country with a reasonable healthcare system and the ability to put people into ICUs.