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Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by sjwalter on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:50AM (#29297667)
Dude, you're stupid to not be vaccinated if you already have recovered from covid and have superior natural immunity?

That's an extremely silly take.

It's like you think this is about compliance rather than, you know, ending the pandemic.

Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by dang on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:03PM (#29301515)
You've unfortunately been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's not allowed here, because it's destructive of what the site is for. It's also the line at which we ban accounts (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations).

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on? That means for intellectual curiosity.

Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by caslon on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:07PM (#29297817)
Unironically yes. There are simple steps that can be taken to drastically reduce the amount of harm caused unto you and by you unto others and transmission through vaccinated individuals is lowered. We would have been done with this before any variants arrived if stupidity wasn't celebrated.

Since it's too late to genuinely fix now, the best thing that can happen is shaming stupidity. Applying evolutionary pressure to individuals that take bad actions is an incredibly good idea. Making the unvaccinated modern lepers is good for society as a whole.

It's not compliance, it's acting rationally. Politically, I'm not even very far from the group most adamant about not getting vaccinated (card-carrying anti-Democrat, here), yet I still acknowledge that not getting vaccinated is an incredible act of stupidity. People who celebrate stupidity instead of acting rationally in times of plague should have evolutionary pressure applied.

It's too late to turn back time and fix the pandemic by forcing them to act rationally, but by applying pressure to prevent them from having success in society, we can make them much less likely to be around the next time this happens. The society of the United States has been doing things like this since it began quite successfully, and it would be ridiculous to stop doing it now.

Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by dang on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:05PM (#29301525)
You posted a bunch of flamewar comments in this thread. That's bad. It doesn't seem you're in the habit of it (that's good), but would you please review the site guidelines and not do this again? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html