Look, I’m not gonna be the next guy you troll into an argument with your condescension. Please stop putting words in my mouth regarding me and ‘my buddies’. I am fully vaccinated but fundamentally disagree with you on how we think policies should be enacted.
I agree here, maybe he shouldn't have used the R word but other than that he was dogpiled right from the get go. Not exactly very hospitable.
This is actually pretty close to what totalitarian means to me: there is no grey area, there is no nuance, there is only one right answer. Only an immature or extremely sheltered person thinks like this (or a Sith).
I would agree If he hadn't just joined a video game site and only ever posted in the most politically charged thread with a 'perfect' anecdotal case - not getting the vaccine, getting COVID but putting absolutely no-one at risk except his girlfriend who is totally hot and who is magically immune and who is also totally real. I'm only shocked he didn't 'know' at least one guy in his circle of friends that was completely healthy but their nut sack exploded after getting the vaccine killing a bus full of nuns.
Which does nothing except stroke your own ego while adding to the toxicity for everybody else. And you call others selfish...
Totalitarianism is a system of government that prohibits all opposition, and requires complete subservience to the state. It has nothing to do with right or wrong opinions. ...or ripping into people when they demonstrate that their opinion is stupid.
And I'm not trying to convince anyone. The time for that is long past. All the evidence is out there to show that the vaccines are safe and effective, and that being anti-vaxx is selfish and wrong.
I'm taking the piss out them, because being anti-vaxx is really, really dumb.
thank you
You are also only thinking of yourself. There is no-one you are reaching with your self-righteous preaching, so it's pure self-gratification what you're doing. All you achieve is ruining it for the rest of us who actually want to hear about people's experiences and opinions without the toxicity and the vitriol. Somehow you are convinced that you are doing something commendable by adding more shit-talking and finger pointing to an already shitty situation. Think about how to build bridges and convince people if you actually want to help and not just masturbate.
No, he is not - he is adding to mass immunity making it easier to protect vulnerable people that cannot get the vaccine. He is also making sure than in the case he gets Covid he is unlikely to develop serious symptoms and thus require hospital care. How is that difficult to understand?
Agreed, but nobody is arguing about this right now though, I'm talking about what you are contributing to this thread with your hateful attitude. How are you helping? What are you contributing with your endless ego-wankery about how smart you are and how stupid the anti-vaxxers. Nobody wants to read it. All you are doing is just publicly masturbating. And it's no nut november...
This is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin. There really isn't any choice but to build bridges, in the end we still share the same country with these people you are so eager to discard. They are our friends, colleagues, neighbours, family. Everyone I know has a couple of unvaxxed people in their social circle.
Earlier this week the Dutch government announced definitively that they would not be enforcing any kind of vaccine mandates for health care workers. Why? The shortage of health care workers is so big, that excluding the unvaxxed would cause serious problems and most likely deaths due to understaffing. Which is a long way of saying: we need these people, we need their skills and hands by the bedside. You can call them selfish, but even unvaxxed they are contributing more ATM than the average Crypto Bro who's sitting on his ass at home staring at his Cardano holdings.
They are all dead or zombies… but what’s your point ? That COVID is fake ?
Ok I admit it was below the belt maybe. Everyone is on the spectrum somewhere, that's right. What I'm tried but failed to say with some measure of diplomacy was that he has a rather formidable blind spot re: what motivates people and how they arrive at a position/decision.
He did that by taking the vax, sure. What FM's doing in this thread ATM though, is a separate issue.
Of course you don't think you have a blind spot, that is the whole thing with blind spots. You don't know you have them and tend to think other people are acting crazy when they're in it. Dude there are so many (millions) vaccine hesitant people around, you have to at least understand that to say they are all uniformly motivated by the same thing is extremely reductive and not conductive to any kind of dialogue. It's also self serving as you get to claim the moral high ground. In other words, it's not really a realistic/objective take at all.
Yeah sure he could have been a troll, but he could also just be a somewhat inarticulate dude who acts on his feelings/is impulsive and doesn't think about stuff too deeply. People have been known to actually be like that in the wild.
Edit: forgot to say that I do appreciate you at least trying to take the opposing point of view, that he's honest.
Well, you don't really engage with mine much either, do you? But fine, I concede that it's easy to forget about those people, and you are right, this sudden '2nd epidemic' of anti-vaxx sentiment is affecting them badly.
I stil maintain there is some level of mind reading going on here, but what the hell, I can't completely discount the possibility that you are capable of telepathy
I would add too that morality itself is a spectrum. You could think you’re a moral champ because you’re a vegan, but steal money from the elderly…or counterpoint— a slaughterhouse operator could donate a large sum of all of his earnings towards worldly causes.
Ritonavir is an inhibitor of several cytochrome p450 enzymes and is commonly used in cocktails to decrease hepatic metabolism of drugs. It has nothing to do with its antiviral properties.
Bruh, do you know what you are talking about? First of all monoclonal antibodies are not candy, they are used for very specific treatments e.g. haemophilia type IX.
He put the arrangements in place and got him in touch with the right people and/or paid for the treatment for him.
Dude, this 'calling out' you keep crediting yourself for does nothing good. I don't see anyone being forced to do anything, that is something that only happens in your (admittedly vidid) imagination. All I'm seeing is a self-righteous dude who keeps shutting down conversation by calling people cowards, assholes, selfish while having very little ability to reflect on his own toxic behaviour. It doesn't help anyone, and like I said, if you word it in the way you do you are quite likely to cause people to further entrench themselves eventually leading to more death.
Yea, he got better so quick and said he wanted to stop before going through whole treatment with ivermectin because he didn’t want to be scrutized for taking “horse dewormer”.
I’m glad you were elected the person to lead the COVID moral enforcement regulatory agency.
