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The Oracle

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Mar 8, 2004
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'' A June 2021 Gallup poll found that, among the vaccinated, 53% now worry most about those choosing not to get vaccinated, “surpassing concerns about lack of social distancing in their area (27%), availability of local hospital resources and supplies (11%), and availability of coronavirus tests in their area (5%).” True to the BIS’s impulses, this fear is metastasizing into disgust, even hatred, of those who—because they believe or act differently—are now perceived as threats: On Aug. 26, in a front-page story in the Toronto Star, my local newspaper, a resident was quoted as saying: “I have no empathy left for the willfully unvaccinated. Let them die.”
 
I know a lot of people look to the anti-vaxxers with disdain. And there is some good reason. These idiots are letting the virus spread and mutate, so there are going to be other variants. That's just going to keep covid fresh and likely make it even deadlier. So, just when there is light at the end of the tunnel for masking or other restrictions, these people are causing progress to halt.

It really is a lot of selfishness. They can't be bothered to mask up, or social distance, or be slightly inconvenienced. But they don't care if they spread the disease. So, a lot of people take the 'fuck 'em' approach.
 
Stop with the misinformation crap, if you don't want to take the vaccine, that your problem


These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call their position wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to them, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
 
These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call their position wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to them, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.

You make no sense at all
 
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