How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19

Re:How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19 by beefield on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:01AM (#22899539)

There are a couple of other groups I would like to be interviewed as well.

- Economists who have bought into the crowding out theory. Are they consistent and still oppose government spending? [1]

- People/corporations who have lobbied for and taken advantage of all kinds of loopholes in taxation as to avoid paying taxes and who think taxation is theft, and are now expecting government to pay them out from this mess. [2]

- The ones that vouch for strong IP and patent protection. Do they propose to not share any information between research groups and give them even longer patents to incentivize better innovation?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crowdingouteffect.asp [2] I cite no examples. I am astonished if there is none, though.

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Re:How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19 by defertoreptar on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:21AM (#22899774)

Your three examples run in a similar vein: individual rights vs the role of government. I think many of those you would see as holding contradictory views would say that government intervention in these areas actually fall under the domain of something they believe is one of the few justifiable functions of government: defense. Only, it's not a war this time.

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Re:How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19 by dariusj18 on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:33PM (#22900439)

In addition, you can be against something but believe that as long as it's being done it should be done right, or to your advantage.

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Re:How the Anti-Vaccine Community Is Responding to Covid-19 by msafadieh on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:02AM (#22899552)

This is what profit-driven systems do.

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