I think govts can advise people but they cannot actually force people (in terms of safety) to comply.
Some people are just rebels and refuse to comply with anything regardless if it was the govt or not. If you have a population that doesn't trust in the govt they may have elected, then they will be ineffective no matter what mandates they have in place.
If someone was paying someone else to get vaccinated, or you got a free pizza voucher (or whatever) there may be more uptake, but then how does that cross the line into bribery. When I got vaccinated I just got a free sticker lol. My life I feel is important because I have people I don't want to lose and if I died, they would miss me and I would miss them.
Sometimes people feel life is so hard already that if they die it would be one less burden. People actually think that way.
Others may be like, they refuse to do anything they hadn't thought of themselves, but if so, why haven't these people been working round the clock coming up with their own vaccine and trying to save other peoples lives? Is it because they don't care? I don't know. A lot of people are like its only ok my life isn't disrupted. But thing is life isn't like that, for most part, there will be feast years and unfortunatley there will be famine years. Some people need to think beyond themselves.
Ok if you are one of the rare people that is totally self sufficient and does everything yourself and exhausts yourself in the process. But people have families, and there is a lot of pressure on people to continue doing things the same as they have always done, regardless.
if its out of sight, for some people it's out of mind. When the virus first hit, many people thought oh its just China's problem. And China and chinese people were vilified because it was seen as all their fault. Well no actually it's a HUMAN problem. I have a lot of empathy for China with such a huge population trying to survive and provide rice and sustenance for their billions of people, they have continued for THOUSANDS of years in their land and they haven't tried to take over anybody else's and appropriate it unlike many other nations. Their motives have never been to displace people. Yes they sometimes cannot manage and do need outside help but they have done by trading in goods and not by trying to imposing their culture on others or via slavery. I think whatever the faults of communism, they tried to work something that was going to be better than the feudal system they had previously. Of course for most it didn't work but see the only thing is when they saw that people would sell their land and if they had money they could then buy it. Yet for those with cultures who depend on land for a living there is no way they would ever even think of selling their land. that is why capitalism doesn't work either. But people here in nz are selling their land right and left.
Anyway sorry, just rambling.
Some people are just rebels and refuse to comply with anything regardless if it was the govt or not. If you have a population that doesn't trust in the govt they may have elected, then they will be ineffective no matter what mandates they have in place.
If someone was paying someone else to get vaccinated, or you got a free pizza voucher (or whatever) there may be more uptake, but then how does that cross the line into bribery. When I got vaccinated I just got a free sticker lol. My life I feel is important because I have people I don't want to lose and if I died, they would miss me and I would miss them.
Sometimes people feel life is so hard already that if they die it would be one less burden. People actually think that way.
Others may be like, they refuse to do anything they hadn't thought of themselves, but if so, why haven't these people been working round the clock coming up with their own vaccine and trying to save other peoples lives? Is it because they don't care? I don't know. A lot of people are like its only ok my life isn't disrupted. But thing is life isn't like that, for most part, there will be feast years and unfortunatley there will be famine years. Some people need to think beyond themselves.
Ok if you are one of the rare people that is totally self sufficient and does everything yourself and exhausts yourself in the process. But people have families, and there is a lot of pressure on people to continue doing things the same as they have always done, regardless.
if its out of sight, for some people it's out of mind. When the virus first hit, many people thought oh its just China's problem. And China and chinese people were vilified because it was seen as all their fault. Well no actually it's a HUMAN problem. I have a lot of empathy for China with such a huge population trying to survive and provide rice and sustenance for their billions of people, they have continued for THOUSANDS of years in their land and they haven't tried to take over anybody else's and appropriate it unlike many other nations. Their motives have never been to displace people. Yes they sometimes cannot manage and do need outside help but they have done by trading in goods and not by trying to imposing their culture on others or via slavery. I think whatever the faults of communism, they tried to work something that was going to be better than the feudal system they had previously. Of course for most it didn't work but see the only thing is when they saw that people would sell their land and if they had money they could then buy it. Yet for those with cultures who depend on land for a living there is no way they would ever even think of selling their land. that is why capitalism doesn't work either. But people here in nz are selling their land right and left.
Anyway sorry, just rambling.
