im fairly disappointed by people who generally identify as libertarian leaning yet support vaccine mandates and passports without explicitly grimacing about the implications for government power and considering the actually implementability of these policies
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1. ability tracking vaccine status is a fucking mess, as far as i can tell there are 50 states each with their own program, god knows how many distributors data quality nightmare doesnt matter if you just need analytic quality data but your talking about punitive measures here
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many of these tracking agencies exist in states controlled by people who have zero interest in mandating anything and i expect will be happy to use any opportunity to ratfuck california (bless them)
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there is also the issue that vaccine cards seem trivially easy to fabricate and the more aggressively you punish noncompliers the more incentivized they are to lie to you i see no approach to resolving this
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so ok maybe youre fine with this and you dont care about fabrication but at that point you might as well admit that your policy is forcing people to claim they have the vaccine which all right i guess you can do that if you want. i also support all kinds of useless ideas
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2. lets say that you manage to create a vast and uniform national apparatus for reliably tracking the medical status of every person in the country in real time, crushing opposition from states, appropriate for precisely identifying individuals to exclude from public life
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"gosh we have this just lying around hope the government doesnt use it for anything other than its intended purposes ha ha"
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anyway im sure you can imagine a set of parameters where ok the vaccines are good enough and the disease is bad enough and people are stupid enough that we still should do all of this but if you dont even worry about this a little bit like what kind of libertarian are you even
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imagining what sort of person would reply to these tweets expecting me to heartily agree with them that the problem with actually existing libertarians is that they dont like government enough
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the vaccine mandates already exist and have existed for a long time so what are the implications we are supposed to be considering?
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@St_Rev has a theory that a lot of statism came about as a result of the wild, unreasonable effectiveness of prior public health initiatives including vaccination. People saw that the government doing stuff worked really astonishingly well and were willing to give it power. - Show replies
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