Maybe the point of the comment is to share their own experiences with the medical system and describe how often they get attacked for sharing their experiences? I do not think the proper response to such a comment is to attack them for sharing their experiences and tell them to "screw [themselves]".
If I were to take a minute to share my own feelings I'd say that the responses to that comment have proven its point. I am glad that they were able to openly share their experiences and I do not feel the need to censor them or attempt to censor them with personal attacks. I would say that the people making personal attacks are making it easier to empathize with the parent comment and are making themselves look rather foolish.
Try to take a moment to put yourselves in their shoes. Tell me that if you were blinded by the medical system you would continue to trust it.
Right, I understand the pull towards individualism, and I default towards it. We are in a pandemic. We’ve been here for months. It’s not a time for individualism, and in fact, poorly expressing individualism will merely reinforce collectivism.
That’s the root problem. If I was blinded by the medical system, I’d shut the hell up in a global pandemic, because it’s not all about me.
We've lived in an individualist society that has left behind people like the OP. Almost no one, if anyone at all, argued for collectivism to undo the bad thing that happened to them.
You're argument seems to be that now that something bad has happened to enough people, it's time for collectivism. That is one massively bitter pill to swallow for all the people who have been left behind in the past and had to fend for themselves.
And why does it have to be all about what you want? Because you are part of a majority? Does that make it okay to steamroll other people, because you, as a member of the majority, have more value? Because more people agree with you, and you add all those people together, and you have more value than a minority? Do you not see how your argument has been used to justify all the terrible things that have been committed against minorities in the past?
All of this could be moot though if these vaccines are truly 95+% effective. Not everyone will need to get it for herd immunity. The most likely scenario seems to be a combination of natural immunity and vaccine immunity before we even have enough doses to give everyone.
I mean that’s just patently untrue in the US with programs like medicare/medicaid. There is not no one thinking about these things and arguing for making them better, so the rest of this is fruit of the rotten lazy argument tree as far as I’m concerned.
He replied to me telling me to behave and I would normally be banned. Looks like the "disabled bonus" was not getting banned for speaking up. GO figure. I am massively disappointed by what turns out to be the true nature of my fellow hacker community.
Frankly, if there was a way to fully delete my account including all the posts I have ever done here, I would do so. Sadly, there isn't.
>Frankly, if there was a way to fully delete my account including all the posts I have ever done here, I would do so. Sadly, there isn't.
I really wish this was true as well. I know you can request to have your username obfuscated. I do not want my handle or my content (think NLP identification) to be associated with this site. I want to be erased. I do not want this on archive.org. I did not consent to this.
