Quote from: _Miracle on Today at 04:48:37 AM

I wish everybody who is able would get vaccinated by choice however making the Covid vaccine a government mandated requirement really does bother me.

I can see that it's an imposition. But it's not a freedom issue unless the consequences of both action and inaction affect only you. With the Covid vaccine, your action of taking the vaccine may give you side effects, so affects only you, but your inaction in refusing to take it affects others, because you increase the chances of them contracting the virus. The argument against this, that everyone has been offered the vaccine, so by refusing to take it you are only increasing the risk to others who have refused... is relevant only in an idealised situation that doesn't exist in the real world. There are for example plenty of people who can't take the vaccine for medical reasons, and people who are too young to take it, and there is still of course cross-border travel.

My analogy of someone waving a gun around in a public place, if somewhat dramatic, is pertinent.

Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 05:15:05 AM

irrational [...] fantasy [...] driven over the edge of insanity [...] never learned to apply simple arithmetic.

If you are angry about lockdowns and other restrictions, then blame the anti-vaxxers... they are the ones preventing effective herd immunity.