Don’t have to tell me twice, I’ve been blaming them for awhile now. Nothing wrong with proper assignment of blame, how else can anyone expect to fix anything otherwise?
Same, society shouldn't have to cater to the willfully ignorant and dangerous science deniers. We are now talking about the public in general needlessly at increased risk because yes, populations with low vaccination numbers do indeed spread the virus faster causing more frequent mutation and in turn, a greater risk of vaccine-resistant variants. Not to mention a crippling of healthcare systems. People who reject and have contempt for expertise and proven facts because they themselves don't understand (and/or don't want to) should never be coddled at the expense of public health.
And any politician or person in a place of power encouraging this distrust and flat out rejection of science and facts for votes is a fucking criminal.
Exactly! Don't believe in science enough to get a simple vaccine? Then you sure as hell don't get to go to a hospital and rely on SCIENCE to save you. Keep your ass at home and pray or whatever instead.
I'm fully vaccinated (not American) and I strongly disagree with the sentiments of the article and most top comments here. Strategy is extremely important and I'm not convinced that constantly insulting antivaxxers will be productive. I'm also not convinced that antivaxxers are the only people to blame for outbreaks, or that it's only conservative politicians who have made huge mistakes. Although it is plausible they are disproportionately harmful.
Antivaxxers aren't just a cause of problems, they are also a symptom. Why don't they trust scientists? Why don't they trust the media? How does poor education contribute to their views? How does poverty in general? If it was just a tiny fragment of the population, I could maybe understand the vilification. But this is clearly systemic. And therefore, we should target the system, not just the people influenced by it.
I mean if we're going that far back its still trump's fault due to his willful non-action despite months of advance warning from experts and his decisions to bring home the embassy people from China.
People willing to take the simple steps of isolating, wearing masks, restricting travel and so on to minimize spreads are also the same people willing to get vaccinated. If the government can’t get people to isolate I doubt they’ll get them to vaccinate.
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u/Chi-Guy86 17d ago
Don’t have to tell me twice, I’ve been blaming them for awhile now. Nothing wrong with proper assignment of blame, how else can anyone expect to fix anything otherwise?