covid, ethics
A quick look at data on Switzerland indicates that the vast majority of covid deaths (~90%) are accounted for by people over the age of 80 who are not vaccinated
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-fully-vaccinated-by-age?country=~CHE
Does this not imply that the great majority of deaths comes from voluntary non-vaccination in the group of people are aware of what death means?
I fail to make a convincing argument for current corona measures given this information.
covid, ethics
@douginamug do you think it's a form, albeit quite different, to assisted suicide?
I remember my Grandad having an "if it's my time, it's my time" attitude when lots of people near him were catching it. I think that was slightly before the roll-outs of vaccine
covid, ethics
@athairbirb @douginamug There is an important ethical difference between taking actions deliberately to hasten death and not taking unusual actions to forestall it. (Unless you're a consequentialist.)
It's true that some old people are ready to go. Pneumonia used to be called "the old man's friend".
In the case of Switzerland, I think we need more information to know why so many octogenarians aren't vaccinated.
