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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    All we need to get those number back up to near 100% is a huge plague that kills a good percentage of us. I hope that those of us who can learn from history are given the opportunity to get vaccinated. So all those who don’t, die.

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      8 days ago

      We just lost a million people directly to covid and it resulted in public support for vaccines, masking, and other health prevention dropping. If 2 million died I would have expected Republicans to run around injecting people with diseases directly to speed up the rapture.

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        8 days ago

        Those of us who did our civic duty will do it again. Those that don’t take a chance on a disease that doesn’t spare them their ignorance.

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      8 days ago

      Honestly if COVID didn’t get through to people, would a higher mortaility rate matter? The next pandemic could be a grossly necrotic parasite, and we’d still have cable news comforming to whatever ‘side’ they’re on and one side virtue signaling by skipping vaccines or safety measures or whatever. It’d trend the heck out of social media.

      Who’s listening to scientists, unfiltered? No one. Long objective tones are boring. The information envionment is not getting any better from here.

      Reality is what people see in their feeds, now. And what fits their tribe.

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        8 days ago

        I think you miss the point of my statement. I’m not trying to get them to see reality anymore. I just want them to go away.

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          8 days ago

          While a sort of darkly logical/amusing thought, it may not work like that. In a bad pandemic, there are just too many factors affecting mortality besides vaccine reluctance.