Godstud wrote:The numbers of vaccines given are rising steadily. Your claim that Hong Kongers aren't going to get vaccinated is not supported by fact, unless you can show me an ACTUAL source(specifically) that shows this, and quote the relevant text.
I can Google shit, but if you are making an argument, then the onus is upon you to provide actual evidence. You provided no evidence that , "I also don't believe that 70% of HongKongers don't want to get vaccinated.". That's dumbassery to say that when we can see that it's clearly not the case by the consistently rising numbers of people being vaccinated.
It's fools and morons who make claims that erode trust in proven science(vaccines) amongst the stupid people in society. Dunning-Kruger Effect at work.
By using the phrase "it seems", I have already made it clear in the beginning that I am making speculations, but it's one fully based on the data we have -- I did not make any data up. I have also admitted that the "70" in the "up to 70% being 'morons' in your eyes" was my mistake because I have overlooked the 1-jab count.
The current official figure is 5,401,561 total doses. It doesn't add up to 70% of the population having vaccinated, as those with multiple doses do have their every doses counted. Subtracting the number of multiple vaccinated means the 1-dose figure of 3,099,708 is closer to the number of individuals having taken part so far.
About your new point of "figures going up", of course they are.
The figures are cumulative so it can only go up, and given the usual circumstances it will only
accelerate (more explanation below).
The only difference one can reasonably deduce is the progress so far.
Compared with the 70+ per cent figure in the West, Hong Kong is undoubtedly slow at this moment.
This clearly is a sign that doubts exist among a significant part of Hong Kong population. And this is after Apple Daily is forcefully shut down, so in the pro-government narrative there should have been no undesirable interference to tell the people NOT to vaccine now.
I am personally fearful of possible adverse effects (mistrust against the government is at worst secondary as this sentiment is still derived from the adverse effect risk)so I will wait until it's impractical to do so (e.g. coercion or I have to do something), but that does not mean I can keep it forever.
Everyone has their calculation, but I sometimes find you very intolerant.
More often than not you denounce those who don't 100% align with your ideals as absolute morons, which is probably not accurate and definitely does not help matters.
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There is one factor that might force me to take vaccination sooner than I want to.
If the government lifts the lockdown, the risk of the virus re-spreading will undoubtedly increase. Having a lot of people vaccinated means the virus would co-exist with the people. That would be the time when I have to take it so as not to catch it, and this will explain the acceleration of vaccination count.
It is always a gamble between the disease and adverse effects. I am not living a super-healthy life (even though I neither smoke nor drink, I do not do enough exercise and I have bad sleeping habits) so I have my worries.