Are you going to take the vaccine?

[Patrick]

Without the fear, the vax would not be front and center to the degree that it is now, and certainly not how many countries are making it basically mandatory. This has never happened in this way for the flu, despite some years having the same direct health impact (the reaction to the virus has created alot of extraneous casualties that are now being associated to the virus in a fraudulent way).

So yes, the fear and propaganda is what makes this situation different, from say 2018 flu season which was particularly high. But for some being in the boiling pot of water makes it hard to differentiate the illusions being created. It also makes it difficult to identify parallel agendas, which is the bigger picture.

Yeah ok the world would not be making such a fuss about vaccination if there was no pandemic.  But also the societal debate about vaccination predates the current pandemic.

I can understand the drive behind such decisions, but I wish they would not make vaccination mandatory.  Not because of vaccination per se, but because mandatory treatments is something I find issue with in general.

I do not see Covid19 having the same direct health impact as the regular flu.  Not talking about its deadliness, but rather about the kind of longer lasting complications some people experience.  That is a newer aspect compared with the flu.  Indeed the medias need very little to get to town with and a pandemic was sure to inspire that machine.  That machine is fueled by tragedy and our current situation gives them an open field.

Even so, in the hypothetical scenario where there were no media frensy and no declaration of a pandemic by the WHO, there are enough remarkable features about the preponderance of infections and the effect the virus has on us that it would have attracted attention.  It would not just have been ignored as if just another flu virus.  It would have taken longer, but it would have come up on the radar.

Now, however it comes to our radar, once there a solution will be sought.  I am not going to say that a vaccine would have been produced this fast without the world fearing those uncommon effects of the virus.  But the facts are there.  These uncommon effects are there and I do not see how we could expect the world not to muster some fear based on that.  I wish it would not, but that is an unreasonable expectation of mine.

I said there is no need to fear this virus, not because I believe it is not dangerous, but because fearing it is not going to help anyone, including the self.  Instead of fear, a more reasonable response would be more effective.  Like taking on a challenge.  You then enter problem solving from the point of view of meeting the challenge instead of doing it because of fear.