Conclusion: I think that at some point almost all will get infected (in the range of 75-90%) and, hopefully, vaccines would help with reducing mortality and serious effects-that's what the main purposes should be anyway, but people would get upset by the fact that current vaccines (even the best) are not as clear-cut as we all hoped them to be.
Either way we will get herd immunity its just whether we do it the easy or the hard way.
Personally I took the blue pill, if I was younger it might have been the red..I am not going to proclaim that you took the wrong actions, yet I doubt that anyone should be letting you off so easy as to allow you to proclaim that you get a pass in your critical thinking attempts based merely on age... .
Yeah, sure, I understand that you may well be implying that there are other reasons beyond mere age, such as various risk factors, including the fact that for sure OLDer fogies are not as likely to be able to tolerate as much physical abuse or even bad habits in order to become vulnerable to limitations of their own body to repair itself.
I gotta run and don't have time to delve into one of your novels but I got this far and will get to the rest later.
How much more could a normal and regular guy hope for? I got: 1) a bookmark... and 2) a promise on the interwebs.
Next thing you know, we will be setting up appointments.
So the point is circumstances are different for everyone and whether you choose to act on self interest or what you perceive as the interest of the herd can be a moot point depending on those circumstances.
in regards to my response to you, it seems that I was focusing on NOT giving up on critical-thinking and just proclaiming inadequate short-hands... .. but hey.. do what you like, that was my 2 cents in regards to feeling that I need to respond to you.
IOW my demographic has made it unnecessary for me to have to make that choice and I am not sure what choice I would have made if I was in a position to not have to protect myself. I would like to think I would make an altruistic choice but I cannot really be sure now can I. We lie to ourselfs all the time to justify actions that are in our self interest.
I ONLY recently got the vax too, so I am not even suggesting that attempting critical-thinking would cause one outcome or another.
My getting the vax does not cause me some resentment regarding coming across seemingly contradictory information on the topic, and furthermore, I ONLY spent a small amount of time actually reading about the supposed propaganda pieces that are likely short of actual real science. Maybe some members here gave some better back and forth considerations, but whatever, sometimes personal circumstances are sometimes going to push a guy in one direction or another - in terms of considering how much his life might be inconvenienced by going along and getting along versus engaging in some kind of rebellion or avoidance or some in-between approach to the matter.
Of course, a lot of us already know that we get lied to a lot by the government and also by companies spouting out supposedly objective research results - so of course, those might well be factors to weigh above and beyond merely considering personal health/lifestyle circumstances.
Well shit I'm getting wordy
Yes you are.
and have to run out,
Why not walk?
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There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: "Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows". The older one says: "No son. Lets walk down and fuck 'em all".<<<<<<
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094894/characters/nm0000380luckily FF saves typed text as the stupid mouse is acting up and sent me back a page and I was not going to retype this.
Well, you still ended up "wordy"... just saying...
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God never gave me shit in this life, I've had to work for everything I've received.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. Probably a vaccine side-effect.
You got magnets sticking to you, too? or spoons? Whatever.. eat some ramen and move on..
wait.. we (royal of course) might not need ramen no more?