As a non-vaccinated person, you are a greater risk to other people than a vaccinated person. You say you think you got COVID and if you did, you may have spread it to others. Had you gotten vaccinated, you may not have gotten it and if you did end up being a rare breakthrough case, you would be less likely to spread it.
Some of those consequences could be lack of access to business who choose for the safety of their customers and employees to limit their business to only vaccinated people. Lack of employment options as some employers may not want the greater risk for other employees or customers. Other parents may not want you to go to a school event where unvaccinated kids are present as there would be greater risk to them.
If you accept the consequences and act accordingly, you can skip the vaccine and keep the hydroxychloroquine handy if that is what you want. But you have to accept those who are not going to want to share a restaurant with you, sit next to you at work, or have you around their kids and respect, not resent, their choices.
I dont want to sit next to you if you have a cold - but closing off society to a group of people without any symptoms (many with natural immunity) is not how we have ever operated as a society. As a vaxd person you can still get/spread it, so why do I have to sit next to you? As a heathly person that has already had it and recovered - I likely have better protected than you thus you are a bigger threat to me than i am to you. At some point we just need to get back to normal, assume the reasonable risks of living life.
Covid has been so politicized it has made people entirely irrational as many demonstrate here on CS - begging the govt to lock them in their homes. Polling has shown that people dramatically over estimate risks associated with Covid. Once politics gets involve it ultimately means one group employing the state to use violence to force their prerogative on the out of power group. The stakes get very high.
Your personal view is that COVID has been over-politicized and that distancing, masking, and vaccinations are an over reactions but the consensus of the scientific community in the world has a different view. Society as whole is following the scientific consensus, you are taking hydroxychloroquine because you think you have COVID (or did a Doctor prescribe this?).
You actually proved my point. You want the right to make your own decision about the vaccine but are not willing to respect the decision of everyone else who is following the scientific consensus. You want your cake and eat it too. I am sure that you, and at least one other poster I can think of, will not like hearing this but I think it is pretty clearly true.
The one part of your story that is difficult to make into policy is how do you treat someone that has been infected and developed natural immunity. I don't think the question of whether natural immunity is more robust than vaccine immunity is resolved by the scientific community. You probably figure you know the answer but the scientists are still looking at this. If someone could test and prove that they have natural immunity, to me, I view that as either almost as good or potentially better than a vaccine and I have no quarrel with that person being given the same access or whatever as a vaccinated person. The difficulty is that there has to be a way to prove or quantify it though; a test or something that can be documented.
If you are not vaccinated, and can't prove you have had it, you are a greater risk to me and everyone else than a vaccinated person, at least according to the world wide scientific consensus. Your decision to not get vaccinated then affects me and everyone else, something you seem unwilling to acknowledge and respect.
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