On 2021-10-18 7:33 p.m., Bill Vanek wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2021, Dutch wrote
> (in article <skko4a$ssl$
1...@dont-email.me>):
>
>> On 2021-10-18 8:53 a.m., Bill Vanek wrote:
>>> On Oct 18, 2021, Dutch wrote
>>> (in article <skj8rm$oa1$
1...@dont-email.me>):
>>>
>>>> On 2021-10-17 5:58 p.m., BillB wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 5:15:12 PM UTC-7, Bill Vanek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Those people are adults, they were exposed to all sorts of
>>>>>> info, and they made a fucking choice. Does everyone who declines the
>>>>>> vaccine
>>>>>> die? Does everyone who gets it avoid death?
>>>>>
>>>>> Irrelevant, obviously. The objective is the minimization of hard and
>>>>> social
>>>>> costs.
>>>>
>>>> Besides, virtually everyone who gets the vaccine avoids dying from
>>>> Covid.
>>>
>>> So why the fuck should vaccinated people care about unvaccinated people?
>>
>> Trying to explain to a conservative caring about other people is a
>> nearly impossible task.
>
> Good lord you are dense. Since context is foreign to you, by “care about”
> I clearly meant “worry that they will infect them”. Is that better?
That's what I thought you meant. It could only make sense to a
"conservative". Everybody is vulnerable, vaccinated or not. Being
vaccinated just improves your chances. You are free to not give a shit,
but that's nothing to brag about.
>
>> I don't expect you to understand compassion but
>> are you really incapable of connecting the dots?
>
> Dots? Like liberal brains?
Dots meaning the path of the virus from person to person, vaccinated or
not. Herd immunity is the only way to slow it down and vaccinations are
the fastest and safest way to get there.
>>>> Certainly this young couple would not have died. I don't blame
>>>> them, I blame the people who influenced them to make those tragic choices.
>>>
>>> But not the people who actually made the choices? They were helpless?
>>
>> No, like a lot of people they made poor choices, but they were victims
>> of people they trusted with influence spreading dangerous misinformation.
>
> Many people make the bad choice of trusting the wrong people,
Yeah, bad people who knowingly spread disinformation that easily
influenced people are misled by.
> like you
> trusting your TV handlers.
What makes you say that the people I agree with are "TV handlers" while
those you agree with are just articulate sources? Maybe a touch of
confirmation bias there?