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Good question. Is this person someone who’s mind can be changed with facts? A loved one? An acquaintance? You could go for the slapback of how many people died and are continuing to die from getting coronavirus vs the alleged thousands that have died from the vaccines. Or you could point them to factual sources that they’ll reject as fake. You could lay down facts about hospital overcrowding due to Corona patients? Maybe tell them that not getting the vaccine is a liberal conspiracy to let republicans get sick all over each other? I dunno, good question.
Well, here's the thing. Said anti-vaxxer supports Biden.
The one obvious problem in your scheme is that s/he can ask the same question about you: Can your mind be changed with facts? Here is a list of newspaper articles documenting deaths of over 5000 vaccinated Indians.
Just deaths. Less serious/less immediate effects are not even being documented because of sheer apathy.
I’m not sure if I quite believe what you’re posting there, but i will say that hospitals can’t keep up with the covid patients and folks with other serious issues can’t get proper medical treatment due to the overcrowding of unvaccinated folks. There’s only around 60 ER beds where i live, and they’re pretty consistently full of COVID patients. I live in the US, btw.
What exactly is the "proper medical treatment" of a covid patient? Do tell if the "authorities" in US have been able to decide anything.
I am in Delhi, India, and have seen what you are seeing 6 months ago, probably seen worse. For two months or so, there were too many patients for the system to handle. Beds weren't there. Oxygen was in short supply. Ventilators were few. 20+ of my own family members were either positive or suffering with illness but not officially positive. The count of friends and coworkers, I didn't bother with. For two months, no one cared for non-covid related news. A city with over 10 million residents, and people were dying regardless of their vaccination status. Many prominent people, some doctors, with double vaccination are already dead of covid.