Vaccines, Insurances and Licenses

Vaccines are similar to insurances in that they protect us from adverse events. There's a similar logic to how they should be applied, and I suspect that the people rushing out to get themselves vaccinated are the same ones who overpay for their insurances.

The only insurances we ever need are the ones covering catastrophic loss of some kind. If an expense can be covered by our personal savings, there's no need for an insurance. This is especially true if we are prudent and generally shy of risk taking. On adding up the costs incurred through minor accidents over a lifetime, the total will come out far below what it would have cost us to buy insurance for it all. Paying directly for minor accidents also has the advantage of control. There's no need to call a third party. There's no humiliating interview required. Everything can be sorted out without the middle man, and the savings made through a lifetime can be significant.

Similarly with vaccines. There's no point in vaccinating healthy and fit individuals against diseases with mortality rates below 3%. When the risk of death or injury is small, vaccines serve no purpose. They can in fact be counter productive. All injections cause some degree of stress to the body. This is only worth while if the reward in terms of safety is correspondingly high.

In the case of the current vaccine mania, it's already clear that the price exceeds the reward. Most people take the vaccine out of convenience rather than a deep seated conviction that it brings health to the vaccinated. But this reveals a deeply pessimistic world view.

People who take the vaccine out of convenience are looking for a license from the state. They want a document that allows them the liberties that the state took away from them at a prior time. To accept this is to accept that freedom comes from government and not form nature, aka God. It's the mentality of serfs, and the fact that so many go along with it is a sad testament to the godless nature of today's society.

Reeve and serfs

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