I'd say the responsible thing to do is verify if the risk-benefit ratio actually warranted mandates or not for each new variant that became dominant. By the time Omicron became the dominant variant, I could not see any strong reason why mandates were still in place.
> I said you made a bad decision by getting infected prior to vaccination.
Do you know when I decided to leave lockdown? Do you know which variant I first became infected with? Indeed, I would say the people who left their homes for non-essential reasons during the first variants did not make a wise decision. However, given that Omicron is considered to be much milder than the first variants, and also since I have no prior health conditions and am young and very fit, I would say that I made a sound decision not to receive a product whose side effects are the worst for my demographic.
The whole push behind the vaccinations is not that it prevents you from getting COVID - it's that it lowers your risk of hospitalization (although this is not how it was advertised initially). Given that my risk of hospitalization is virtually nil without vaccination, then I see no reason to get vaccinated.
> I'd say the responsible thing to do is verify if the risk-benefit ratio actually warranted mandates or not for each new variant that became dominant. By the time Omicron became the dominant variant, I could not see any strong reason why mandates were still in place.
How is that any different from what happened? When Omicron's severity was understood, vaccines mandates went away.
> Do you know when I decided to leave lockdown?
Why don't you tell me? I was able to leave by summer 2021 because I wasn't swayed by conspiracy theory blogs.
I'd say the responsible thing to do is verify if the risk-benefit ratio actually warranted mandates or not for each new variant that became dominant. By the time Omicron became the dominant variant, I could not see any strong reason why mandates were still in place.
> I said you made a bad decision by getting infected prior to vaccination.
Do you know when I decided to leave lockdown? Do you know which variant I first became infected with? Indeed, I would say the people who left their homes for non-essential reasons during the first variants did not make a wise decision. However, given that Omicron is considered to be much milder than the first variants, and also since I have no prior health conditions and am young and very fit, I would say that I made a sound decision not to receive a product whose side effects are the worst for my demographic.
The whole push behind the vaccinations is not that it prevents you from getting COVID - it's that it lowers your risk of hospitalization (although this is not how it was advertised initially). Given that my risk of hospitalization is virtually nil without vaccination, then I see no reason to get vaccinated.