There are two things I don't like about OAK'S posts:
[1] He won't acknowledge facts when presented with them.
[2] He seems to derive pleasure from people dying of Covid.
On this second point, there is a website called
www.sorryantivaxxer.com, which essentially gloats about people dying of Covid, simply because they made the private medical decision not to be vaccinated.
The argument might be: by being unvaccinated, these people are potentially straining the healthcare system.
And to some extent, the pandemic IS a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" - but the unvaccinated dying are almost exclusively extremely elderly, severely obese, or severely immunocompromised.
In Canada, there are 5,864,200 fully unvaccinated Canadians. And approximately 20,000 died since the vaccine rolled out in December of 2020. Even assuming 100% who died were unvaccinated [not true], that means 5,844,200 unvaccinated people didn't die. So at least 99.66% didn't die. And again - that's assuming that ALL the deaths were among the fully unvaccinated [which is NOT so]. So all that stupid website does is compile examples of EXCEPTIONS of unvaccinated people dying.
Yes, there is an EXTREMELY RARE chance that unvaccinated people can die - but why is it wrong for me to get Covid and use ICU capacity, when I've literally gone to the hospital FIVE TIMES in the past 25 years?! And two of those times were for stitches.
Yet I'm under some moral obligation to get this vaccine, but it's fine for some other person to be 400-lb, with a crack addiction, and strain the healthcare system that way?
So the "using healthcare resources" argument is bullshit.
If these people who died were bragging about spreading Covid to people and dying - I could understand why people would have a problem with that. But to gloat about them dying, just for supposedly using healthcare resources? Are we out-casting people right now based on individual healthcare consumption? Do we REALLY want to go down that road??
OAK would say "But Covid is contagious". Ok...and OAK is vaccinated but works with the public. I am unvaccinated, but live off my savings. There is NO WAY I am exposing more people to respiratory pathogens than he is.
So how is THAT fair?
His arguments are huge slippery slopes!