I advocated lockdowns combined with strong social safety net protections and a thorough testing regime and the person still said "yeah but the other effects." When I pressed as to what effects, they said "well children won't be able to socialize." Like yeah.... that's bad, but you know what else can effect a child's mental health: mommy/daddy/granpa/grandma/etc dying from a totally preventable pathogen.... Jesus and this person is in "academia" doing anthro and shit....
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The discussion really ought to be about the freedom to choose which of our overlords get the guillotine and which get the wall.
Guillotine for the bigger ones to make a spectacle and send a message, wall for the lesser ones for greater efficiency. Boom, solved. Next issue!
starting to think that western people really need to experience some "hard times" -- or at least to find out what it's like to not be such pampered little fucks
It's also important to recognize that these babies include the most highly-educated and prestigious fuckfaces. Roomfuls of PhDs wearing no masks in crowded, tight indoor spaces in the middle of a new variant's meteoric rise.
There is a deep rot in Western culture that could be summed up as a lack of empathy or value for human life - or maybe more accurately, a culture where those are both highly prized in only certain contexts and totally ignored in ones that matter. No cognizance of the misery, even though they are generally empathetic people.
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