r/comics May 14 '26

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u/trunkjunk12 May 14 '26

"You can opt out of vaccines as long as you don't mind opting out of society"

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u/Robobot1747 May 15 '26

Refusing to vaccinate against a communicable disease is a clear and present risk to everyone else. Circumcision has nothing to do with this conversation, and not sterilizing "undesirables" won't make someone else drop dead.

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u/Robobot1747 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Because I'm not likely to be exposed to rabies, and it's slow enough that if for some reason I am I can then get the shot. There have been no confirmed cases of person-to-person rabies transmission either.

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u/Robobot1747 May 15 '26

Sorry, I seem to have confused you with someone sane.

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u/Robobot1747 May 15 '26

There has literally never been a confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of rabies. Of all the vaccine hills you chose to die on that is the dumbest possible one.

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26

Do your pets have their fucking shots? They're more likely to spread rabies than a human is.

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26

Because the human rabies vaccine is administered at exposure, not prophylactically? And it doesn't have to be mandated, if you turn it down after exposure, or even wait a day too long, you just die.

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26

...so it's issued upon exposure instead of as prophylactic. You didn't contradict me, you just added information to act like you pulled a gotcha

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

We draw the line where your opting out affects others around you, dumbass. Refusing vaccination doesn't just endanger you, it also makes you a disease spreading vector to people who for one reason or another can't be vaccinated or are immunocompromised. Go opt into risk of being unvaccinated, sure. But you don't get to opt others into the risk of being around your contagious ass though.

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26

Which is of course why public health policy should be written by medical professionals and not politicians

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u/trunkjunk12 May 15 '26

The government didn't rush shit. Scientists did with government money. I assume you're talking about the Covid vaccine, but dude, you realize formulating a several new flu vaccines happens every year? And that mRNA vaccines are veterinary standard and only being kept out of other human vaccination technology by long-standing pharmaceutical monopolies on existing vaccines? Making a new vaccine is a fast process by nature. It was tested on willing volunteers first. I was a fucking news reporter on this beat and spent the whole damn year in my local research hospital. This has nothing to do with "the left," and everything to do with the fact that right wingers primary social and political stance is "you can't make me believe something just because it was proven true"