From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
l’m not an anti vaxer. I however couldn’t take the vaccine due to my illness. But there was no room for those exceptions. I was threaded horribly within my country (Netherlands).
For example, I couldn’t even sit down and order something to drink on very very hot day.
From a policy perspective, what’s more important?
A) Letting people who for whatever reason didn’t get the vaccine have a drink at a terrace
or
B) Preventing people who are unvaccinated from either spreading or catching the virus when community spread is still very much a thing and hospitals are overwhelmed?
I was in the Netherlands for part of the lockdowns and I definitely recall the news of hospitals around the country being under a lot of strain. I think your situation in particular sucks and the lockdowns were pretty awful to go through, but I think just letting everyone raw dog it and then let the hospital system collapse would have been extremely irresponsible. And the gemeente would have caught hell for that too.