The cranks are the people in this very thread who are saying they are okay with permanent masks and boosters. The fact is, the vaccines are here, and they work. People need to stop being antivax and asking everyone around them to lock down just because they can't understand that it's time to move on and stop doubting just how effective the vaccines really are because of a 0.0001% chance they might maybe not work for them very well.

What we are seeing right now is the same "pro vaxxers, pro science" types revealing their true face by not being willing to accept that the vaccine works and that the science is clear; omicron is mild, hospitalizations are fine, and that the virus is essentially harmless for kids. They are the equivalent of tinfoil wearers that "wear them just in case" aka cranks.

You broke the site guidelines egregiously with this post, and have been repeatedly posting other flamewar comments too. We've had to ask you many times not to do that. I had to ask you about this fairly recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190706.

If you keep it up, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that so, regardless of how right you are or how strongly you feel, would you please stop?

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

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), regardless of how much smarter or better you consider yourself. It's an extremely low-quality kind of comment, and evokes worse from others.

Not only that, but such generalizations are inevitably bogus, because people make them based on the data points they remember, and remember the ones they hate the most.

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Edit: please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments generally. You've been doing that repeatedly lately, and it's not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29758975 was particularly egregious—you can't do that on this site, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

Please don't cross into personal attack or break the site guidelines, no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes everything worse.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882588 are not ok. No more of this, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.