I understand the sentiment. But nevertheless it is a vile one. To wish disease and death on another human being.
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Precisely. As much as I detest antivaxxers, I try to resist reaching the point of gleefully expressing schadenfreude when one of them falls ill. I understand that it can be difficult.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkRap40434853 and
You’re a doctor, you *shouldn’t* express glee when an anti-vaxxer gets COVID. I’m a comic, this is a joke that other people liked a lot. Good luck with your doctoring!
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Replying to @anylaurie16 @MarkRap40434853 and
I bet you’re one of those comics who complains about “cancel culture” when criticized for offensive jokes like this.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkRap40434853 and
Nope and I’m not complaining now, I’m responding. You QTed my joke to virtue-signal your preferred behavior to your followers. You also admitted you don’t like anti-vaxxers, whom you ostensibly treat. Are MDs supposed to do that on their professional accounts?
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Replying to @anylaurie16 @MarkRap40434853 and
This isn't my professional account, and I've made it very clear many times that when I say "antivaxxer" I do NOT mean "vaccine hesitant," for whom I try to have empathy. I mean the ideologues and grifters who spread antivaccine disinformation. I guess it's time to say it again.
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Replying to @gorskon @anylaurie16 and
Thank you; I believe it’s worth being explicit. *You* don’t make that leap, but it is tempting for many to make the leap that anyone unvaccinated (at this point) is beyond redemption.
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Replying to @d_a_keldsen @anylaurie16 and
I certainly don't do that, particularly given how vaccine hesitancy among many Blacks and other minorities, for example, is fueled by a history of institutional racism in medicine that makes their distrust of the medical profession very understandable.
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Replying to @d_a_keldsen @gorskon and
My take would be, yes it is very understandable why you are hesitant. But me being sympathetic isn’t going to do you any good if you are dead. There are statements that have been put out well known and respected Doctors who are POC, talking directly to this,
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That is why I tend not to say much about this, being an older privileged white guy and all. To many poc, I lack credibility because of that on this particular issue.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkRap40434853 and
I saw this in person in St. Louis. When you have an area where medicine, the police, and politics are run by white people and for white people, that’s what you get. The last mile of hesitancy has to be addressed by locals and for locals, for trust.
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