Perhaps there's middle ground between the "vaccine hesitant"/incorrigibly opposed to any efforts to control the virus being totally blameless, at worst confused or misled, and them being entirely, malignantly culpable up to the point we should dance on their graves if they die.
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A lot of the rhetoric around this focus on libs sneering or condescending against these people, but a precondition of treating someone with genuine respect is holding them to a reasonable standard. And being completely out there and wrong about covid isn't reasonable.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur
I feel confident dancing on their graves because they endangered others at the same time they did themselves. Sort of like how we treat wreckless drivers who wrap their car around a pole
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If we went from a society with no cars to one where everyone had cars overnight, probably a lot more people would wrap their car around a pole. I get what you're saying but the fact it came out of nowhere explains part of why so many people got it so wrong.
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but we've had pandemics before and stopped them by doing something about them eg spanish flu/polio also by now it's well known how to behave so people no longer have an excuse. before they die they should be told how many people they likely also killed by spreading it as a fuck u
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Spanish Flu is a bad example here because the policy response ranged from lucky-guess (local mask mandates and school closures) through to crime-against-humanity (Wilson shipping vulnerable populations to the trenches en masse). H1N1 burned itself out in most western countries.
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On the other hand, if humanity knew what viruses were at the time we could have created an effective vaccine and it might have gone differently.
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