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I think I agree with you on your first sentence: If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.

Now vaccines, if YOU don't get vaccinated, you might cause the death of one or more people who you get infected directly or indirectly.

One is a social good, the other is a personal choice.



> If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.

And if I accidentally pull out in front of you, causing you to crash while not wearing a seatbelt, now I'm traumatized for life and possibly sued into bankruptcy, instead of simply inconvenienced.

Not to mention traumatizing anyone who witnessed you fly through the windshield, and EMT/first responders.

You do not exist in a vacuum.


> If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.

This of course assumes there’s no one else in the car. If there is, then you turn yourself into a 80kg human meat pinball moving at between 20-80mph, bouncing around the inside of the car. In this case your pretty much guaranteed to kill or seriously injure the other occupants.


You might make that argument for vacines that prevent you from passing the disease on.

That is not the case for covid.


A large number of high quality studies say otherwise.




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