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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Conservatives are violently opposed to COVID vaccination requirements, but don't have a problem with other vaccination requirements. There's no principle involved. It's just oppositional behavior.
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Oh really? Read about HPV vaccine requirements.
And what other vaccinations are required? My state may vary from yours, but I know of no fed govt mandates for vaccines. It's optional. At the school board level, and perhaps the state or municipal level, yes, vaccines are mandated. If you don't get your kid vaccinated, the child can't attend or play sports.
And I love your use of the term "oppositional." As if people objecting to a mandate are all petulant little children. None may actually hew to the principle that people may choose for themselves (or be better incentivized at the municipal or state or school level). The inescapable corollary to comments like yours is that you, who assume you know what's best, are in a position to tell these people what to do.
I know what's best. But I don't think I should have the right to tell people what to do. I figure they can learn the hard way for themselves, or for those who do not get the vaccine and suffer nothing as a result of contracting Covid (the overwhelming majority of people), not learn anything.
"Oppositional," sure, in some cases, but no more laughable than the know-it-all authoritarianism with which your comment is freighted. As if you're of a unique position from which to judge.
You're so tone deaf sometime you don't realize it's voice exactly like yours that are half the problem. Those of us in the middle could probably corral these dimwits and get them to take vaccines. But dipshits make comments like yours and turn it into an argument of "real Murica" versus "coastal elites." And then any chance at compromise is lost.
