lately I've had to make a pretty grave decision: my grandma was terribly ill and it looked like she only had days left. she was constantly alone in the hospital, because visitors weren't allowed, not even family, terrified and generally miserable. I was pondering whether it was morally okay to visit her (by the time I would arrive, she'd be back home), whether I wanted to risk infecting her or someone else. she obviously
wanted to be visited, all of my grandparents still do actually. would you risk infecting yourself, your family and other people around you in order to make a loved one's death less tortuous and give them some solace, maybe get closure for yourself? or would you prefer to rather stay safe and not take the chance that absolutely nothing bad will happen from your visit? I had been in a similiar scenario previously. my granddad was seriously ill and about to die. everyone in my family besides me was able to pay him a visit in the hospital, talk to him for a bit and say some final words. everyone besides me, since I was stuck in Latin America. not getting any form of closure with him has been bothering me for my entire life.
Take it now and save lives.
no thanks, I won't enter a hospital while this city has the worst 7-day-incidence since the virus got here, and it will likely not be possible for a long time to get treated at home unless it is the only way. I have already said that I will take the vaccine once I'm sure it's safe, and I agree with other posters scepticism towards both Phizer and Bayer. luckily there are many other suppliers, so this should not be an issue.
just in your last post you were lamenting how especially those people that are healthy and not in a risk group should prioritize getting vaccinated themselves. I partially agree with you, because they take little risk in doing so. I have a much higher chance of actually catching CoVid (my immune system hasn't been doing so well lately) and being killed by it.
also, just as an fyi, failing to save someone else's live is clearly not the same as killing someone. purposefully giving someone AIDS is not the same as accidentally infecting someone. you calling people murderers because they don't align with your idea of what proper pandemic etiquette is is frankly not nice.
some people have been thriving under self-isolation, but as someone who likes to travel a lot and be social, this has been mostly hell for my mental health. so badly that this, plus the stress from work and uni, has actively affected my cardiac health. I'm already trying my best every day by restricting myself from seeing friends, family, being in open places and travelling, while all around me people are going to Hawaii, holding wine tastings or partying without masks in densely packed clubs with no ventilation. I can't even breathe properly with a mask and am required to wear it outside all the time. even when walking to a grocer on a lonely street.
Your mentality of "everyone should do literally everything in their power to save other people's lives, otherwise they're a murderer" is one I actually see with
a lot of people. it's great if you can do all that while staying sane. not everyone can, though. you're making it sound like all of this is a complete no-brainer, but for a lot of people there is serious risk and other negatives involved in adhering to your perfect standards of what a person should do during a pandemic.
