• NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I hate to say this, but depending on how you look at it this might actually be better for America as a whole since it’ll reduce the number of republican voters.

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      9 months ago

      And yet it’s never that straightforward. The more people who are infected provides more opportunities for virus mutations, endlessly prolonging this pandemic for all of us.

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      9 months ago

      Covid is communicable.

      What would “actually be better for America” is forcing every person in Florida (and the rest of the country) to get vaccinated at the barrel of a gun.

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        I agree that there really isn’t an interpretation of this system that doesn’t involve the death of innocents. The correct thing to do would be to punish the people who promulgate these concepts by making them personally responsible for the deaths that their actions and misinformation engender.

        Say what you want, it’s a free country, just be prepared to be responsible for what happens because of what you say.

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          9 months ago

          I’d rather prevent bad things from happening then let them happen and throw the responsible party in a cage.

          “Let people do what they want” seems like a fucked up ideal when you know adherence to it leads to massive innocent deaths.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah…. But that’s not how public health works. These idiots aren’t just killing themselves, they’re killing our immunocompromised, elderly, etc.

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    9 months ago

    And the Floridians who trust these people will not get vaccinated. What a dereliction of duty. Once again, Republicans demonstrate they have no shame.

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    9 months ago

    A fascist and a quack walk into a bar… everyone stands up, forms a line and punches them.

    Another person walks into the same bar and asks “what’s the line for?”. Then someone replies “thats the punch-line”.

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    9 months ago

    This is bad and unsettling but let’s face it the rest of the world isn’t significantly better. Vaccines won’t solve the pandemic when hardly anyone wears masks, workplace accommodations slowly disappear and mass events gather thousands like it’s 2019 again. If we brand public acting against anti-covid measures as tinfoil hat grifting (and rightly so) we should hold anti-WFH preachers to the same standard as well as any large-audience event which does not mandate masks. But we won’t because burning man bullshit, disneyland, crowded restaurants and random conventions are more important than a passing thought about (as one poster mentioned here) elderly and immunocompromised.

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      9 months ago

      Covid spreads and the fewer people are vaccinated the more covid can mutate to avoid the vaccinations of the people who aren’t fans of mass murder.

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    9 months ago

    The continued existence of right wing ideologies threatens you, me, and our families’ existence, world peace, functioning and fair economies, the planetary ecosystem, every minority population.

    It is truly beyond time to excise this cancer. Your, my, humanity’s survival, the planet’s survival literally depends on it.