COVID-19 - appropriate government response?

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Re: COVID-19 - appropriate government response?

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FredVegrox wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 10:00 am While facemasks were worn by everyone when it was enforced I did too, at first believing the contagion might be around anywhere I went, though I was not among the first using them. I was more aware later on that they were probably not so useful in effectiveness. Then it was just going along. That is exactly how the government stays in place.
This is how the government stays in place, and it is the case that governments are unfair to us, that is inherent to governments. We do not need institutional nannies that take our money to keep running.
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FredVegrox wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:29 am And what gets swept under but the deaths of those who had recently had COVID shots, and even were healthy up until then, and they just succumbed? They want us to think the shots are worthwhile? At the very best it could be said that they were experimental, meaning people getting the shots were those experimented on. Anything else behind those sudden deaths would be what is more deliberate and that is really sinister. But I do not trust the state has our own interests as its priority, too much history betrays that.
Vaccines do carry their own risks, but they are nothing compared to COVID-19 itself. You need to understand that an 80-year-old has around 15% chance of dying if he catches COVID-19, and his chances of dying from a vaccine are essentially 0. Now, as for 20-year-olds, yes, the chance of dying from a vaccine is significantly higher and the chance of dying from COVID-19 is significantly lower, but we are talking about around 1/3'000 chance of dying from COVID-19 and around 1/100'000 chance of dying from a vaccine.
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I've published a YouTube video explaining why I am against lockdowns: https://youtu.be/3ZnXt3ZTW8M
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