If you were to go back two years and tell people if there would be this much commotion over the flu and flu shots, nobody would believe you.

The guys talking about "the vaccines saving us" and "I hope cases go down", come on man. Cases will go down when they want them to go down.

Yeah, I'm amazed at it.

It's not the politicians who are mandating the masks again that are the problem, it's the people who are unvaccinated.

How people keep falling for this division is crazy.

This.

Irredeemable detected.

What an absolutely idiotic argument. 99.999% of people who don’t want this vaccine aren’t saying nobody should get any vaccine ever. They’ve done their prudential risk calculation and made their decision. Virus which they are damn near certainly not going to die from, or vaccine with unknown risks.

Covid != smallpox.

It wasn't my intention at the time, but when I converted my equities to treasuries in my 401K I saved my ass from the big plunge and was able to convert back in at a cheaper price. Wouldn't say I made a chit ton of money, but I did at least make some $ off it.

The way I see it. I don’t give a fukk if people get vaxed or not. But vaxed people care a lot if I do not participate in it.


So stay salty.

Vaccine remorse is real and it’s spectacular.

Tell them they’re racist since a disproportionate amount of vaccine skeptics and holdouts are poc

Remember they call every gathering they don’t like a super spreader event, and the “experts” were fine with peaceful protesting during a super scary pandemic because it was crucial “to save black lives” (after they told us covid hurts black communities the most)

Why r u so dumb?

I'm one of the few people in the United States who has been vaccinated for smallpox (also rabies, yellow fever, typhoid, anthrax, botulism, all hepatitis variations, and plague), and I'm not going to get this vaccine. Risk just isn't there.

There's an interesting book about the phenomenon you anecdotally describe here called Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt. I don't agree with the author's analysis completely, but I think he's right about the general thesis of the book, that working professionals are trained to be more complicite to authority on its face alone, and to not question it. This "pandemic" demonstrated it perfectly, the college educated professionals blindly do as they're told, while the subhuman derided tradies and rednecks see the world for what it is, relying on the common sense expunged from the professional class.

imagine associating with maskies/vaxxies

beautiful words

You guys remeber when you had to get half way through a full conversation to determine if someone was mentally challenged? Now you can tell from 100 feet away. Thats probably the only good thing that has come out of the past couple years.

It is because those professional have more to lose. Their careers are in the upper tier of the socioeconomic class and they are smart enough to know not to rock the boat. It's only the truly passionate, altruistic ones in those classes that speak out at their own risk to help the greater good.

However, there are absolutely useful idiots in that group who have been brainwashed and believe they are speaking through altruism as well who add to the noise when trying to find the signal. Broadly speaking.

Jfl I’ve been getting some backlash from it. Went to Carowinds with a big group last week, only one not vaxxed, most of them need students/doctors.

One of them mentions to me now anyone unvaxxed is bringing it on themselves and he doesn’t care if they die/get hospitalized. I agreed, compared it to drunk drivers who I have no sympathy for. They all stopped after that because that dude’s brother there with us had drove home after five drinks at an Olympic watching party the night before. JFL at virtue signaling at me about this chit.

You’re vaxxed and will have supposedly almost no chance of getting it so why care? I’m taking the risk myself and anyone who isn’t vaxxed basically made the choice or shouldn’t be out in public if immunocompromised/susceptible. Same as obese people stuffing their faces with junk food. The difference is the significant benefit to risk of eating healthy and working out compared to obesity, whereas a healthy young guy getting vaxxed is mostly unnecessary. I agreed the general public should get vaxxed esp w comorbidities but I don’t personally see the point.

i'm pro do whatever the fuark you want. The people I've seen wish death on others the most are pro-vaxers. Saying **** like "They deserved it for not getting the vaccine". Didn't realize we were stooping so low

This is absolutely the case and part of it. I had to have verification of my vaccination status at multiple levels to be authorized to enter the building maskless. Masks are a scarlet letter at my level.

While discrimination at work regarding vaxx status, masks or no masks, etc. is forbidden, it would be a career killer for anyone considered “talent” to show up with a mask, the assumption being they’re either A. Anti-science or B. Lazy.

That’s fukked but it’s the reality.

I couldn’t give a fuk whether people are vaxxed, it doesn’t change the needle and who am I to judge their individual experience.

But the reality is that while I’m sure people have some buddies who work at Jiffy Lube that have watched some YouTube vids on the vaccine being a sinister plot to track them (via their iPhone JFL), that most reasonable real MDs and epidemiologists understand vaccines help.

Everything has a risk, there is a low level of risk for a healthy individual to get the vaxx, I mean hell the nurse could slip and jab you in the neck, and there are always rare reactions to a vaccine.

But if people are worried about a greater world order controlling them through sinister means in a vaccine, they already did the damn thing with FB, Google, etc.

For every unfortunate negative reaction to the vaccine there are thousands of cases of people dead from the disease.

Live and let live, but I’ll step when someone calls me dumb for getting vaxxed. My gf is unvaxxed and you know what, whatever.

But anyone that doesn’t believe in vaccines might wanna check on the science behind what they do believe... Sounds like some Astrology MFer’s lol.

I won't get the vaccine.
If people want to, that's fine, their choice. But they won't shut the fuk up about it, nor will they allow anyone else to make the decision for themselves.
It's a cult. They have to explain why they're the better / smarter person for taking the "JAB." Which, ultimately, is an untested, rushed shot from companies that have horrific track records.

Damn bro. Agree with everything you said and wanted to comment on all of your points because I strongly agree with all of them.

The scarlet letter is an analogy I hadn't thought of before, but perfectly sums up the situation.

That is what drives me the most nuts. All because you have a different opinion, you are socially ostracized, financially stymied and cast away from professionally networking due to a visible "non conformity" mask put in place by people who are often smart enough to know that there are alternative viewpoints, but don't acknowledge them due to their own personal risk aversion of hindering personal corporate goals.

What's worse is these people know this and will still advance a status quo of weaponized social manipulation for their own endeavors. It enters the realm of cowardice versus sociopath/psychopathy.

Bro, do you want a fukking tissue so you can have a cry? Lol.