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masterplum posted...

Well yeah, theres going to be some deaths which are sad, but I honestly think if you are rooting for the human race as a whole, the best outcome is this suddenly becomes twice as deadly. One of the largest factors of if you are going to be vaccinated is your level of societal trust, and eliminating humans with low societal trust is what lets societies collectively come together and survive.

Prior to 300 years ago people with low levels of societal trust just died on their own by wild animals, famine, marauders whatever. Now they dont, and we are seeing why thats a problem.

Uh, my primary concern here are the immuno-compromised who can't get the vaccine, others like kids who can't, and the possibility that with the virus allowed to continue to rampage through large unvaccinated populations allows for the greater chance of a mutation that has a greater ability to breakthrough the vaccinated population.

Your position here sounds extremely uncomfortably like trying to establish an equation where "x number of 'undeserved' deaths still comes out to a net positive if it results in enough disproportionate death among those more deserving" when you come openly hoping the virus gets more deadly.

and like... that's not really the kind of equation i think is at all one we should be trying to come up with. It's basically the eugenics argument repackaged in the from of disease.

Like, I get why a lot of people are just "If they refuse to get vaccinated then so be it, it's on their heads" but even that, to me, misses the mark of the point of the vaccine in containing COVID and ironically plays into the anti-vax, "You got the vaccine right, so why do you care if I didn't?" nonsense by framing it in terms of a individual/personal responsibility instead of a societal one.

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