Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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I'm not celebrating their death, I'm just pointing out that it was entirely preventable, unlike, say, alcoholism.
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That’s fair, especially in countries with socialized health care where resources are oftentimes very limited.
I was really responding to the comment regarding the people reading and posting in the HCA subreddit. I just can’t see that response as some great moral failure from people who are at their wits end with a segment of the American population who just can’t/won’t be bothered to care a single person but themselves.
People here were happy to wait their turn and had trust in the authorities to provide. Wasn’t all the mad political posturing that was seen in the U.K.
Cos throwing poison down their necks only harms themselves.
Not wearing a mask or not getting a vaccine harms EVERYBODY.
The NHS spends hundreds of millions treating alcohol related ailments every year, so that’s really not true.
Knew this would be your comeback.
In 2020/21, tobacco duty tax receipts in the United Kingdom amounted to approximately 9.96 billion British pounds
In 2020/21, tax receipts from alcohol duties in the United Kingdom amounted to approximately 12.12 billion British pounds
You seem to be mixing up people dying with people being treated for preventable illness, easy mistake to make.
Tell that to everyone that’s suffered from domestic abuse as a result of alcoholism.
Bellends are bellends, blaming drink is just easy.
But if we could give people a vaccine to not be a woman beating piece of garbage, you would support it, right?
Yes I would.
I mean im not blind, smoking and drinking are bad, health-wise, the reason you mentioned above, its all sorts of wrong.
But for me theres a world of difference between MOST people silently killing themselves by choice and SOME people killing others for the sake of a little hess hess in the arm.
Alcohol costs the NHS several billion pounds per year, and the tax receipts generated through alcohol sales could be generated through alternative sources without the need for illness and death.
And as somebody else pointed out, you’re ignoring the impact on society of alcohol consumption through domestic violence and other criminal acts which occur when peoples inhibitions are lowered.
Your argument is naive.
I mean it is, as above, im not defending people drinking and smoking, I dont drink, I dont like the whole drinking culture, I smoke and like a bit of cake, they are my choice, they only affect me, sure at some point they will kill me, make me require hospital treatment no doubt, but im ok with that, my vices currently only affect me.
But knowing im vaccinated means im helping to protect myself and others.
I dont see why the financial aspect of this matters, life doesnt have a price.
We’re both on the same page about Covid mert. I suppose what I’m getting at is a lot of the people who are dying from Covid due to not being vaccinated are not doing so from a bad place. People who get taken in by these Covid lies aren’t acting with malice, they are just misinformed and often led astray. Just like how people with alcohol issues don’t generally do it from a bad place, just life and a experiences happen.
I think there’s a difference between someone who has a disease like alcoholism and someone who is just plain ignorant.
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