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By all means, please inject yourself to the max.

Just allow me to opt-out from such experiments.

My body, my choice.


> My body, my choice.

Up until and dependent on how much you want to participate in modern society.


>modern society.

A crummy lot I've to say.

Quote:It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti


Your body is also an infection vector for other people's bodies.


That does not allow anybody to experiment with others bodies. Think about it.


What experiment? Unlike medicine, vaccines use the body's own mechanism just the way the body itself uses it. By exposing the body to something potentially dangerous, the only difference to "natural" infection is that in the latter case the body will take damage, sometimes incurable damage, before figuring out which proteins belong to the enemy. Vaccines do the same just without, or with way less risk of damage.


Experiments on unconsenting, let alone non-consenting, randoms are bad.

Telling people they have to obey health rules of society in order to be part of that society, is universal.

Consider why we wear clothes, and that even nudist colonies want members to have a towl for where they sit, in order to prevent what is for everyone else a "just you" problem: skidmarks.


SKID MARKS? I assumed sweat and butt prints, at worst. If that's the threat, maybe it's time to go home. :D


Your body is also a vector for natural immunity: you know, the way it has worked since life exists.


Yep, a random one, and one where a) you take damage before the body figures it out, and b) it's pretty random which protein the immune system manages to identify (basically: The first one which identifies the virus), which may as well be one which changes widely so that even if you get immunity to your current infection you may not be immune to the variant someone else harbors. Whereas vaccines try to expose the body to the most stable proteins, for longer protection.


Isn’t it obvious the comment you’re replying to is sarcasm? Genuinely interested.




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