Listen Jack, populism is for dog faced pony soldiers! Making everyone hate you except your wine cave buddies is where it's at! :biden-troll:

  • silent_water [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    solving the problem entailed either taking China's approach and aiming for zero Covid or waiving the vaccine patents and exporting enough vaccine to stop the virus's spread globally, before it mutated and got out of control. either way it's never been the fault of the people who refuse to take the vaccine and it's totally impossible for the liberal state to take either approach.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I think people tend to severely underestimate China's approach to COVID, the zero covid policy was amazing but China is now at close to 1.2 billion people vaccinated.

      At this point the anti-vax crowd do share part of the blame if we accept that the only way they will take the vaccine is by force. Yes the US should definitely just pay people but then that is not zero covid anymore there are more than enough chuds that would literaly burn free government money to own the libs. It would be far better than the current situation but it is not 100% guaranteed to work.

            • CTHlurker [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              You just made me imagine a Federal Shots-for-Shots program. Where you get a free gun / free ammo if you get vaccinated. Would probably make all the libs freak, but I think it might make the chuds get on board. Also biden could frame it as some attempt at bipartisanship like he always wants.

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yes the US should definitely just pay people but then that is not zero covid anymore there are more than enough chuds that would literaly burn free government money to own the libs.

        This has been tried in many places already for many immunization programs—and specifically with COVID, in somewhere my family is from. It had little to no effect on vaccination rates. People holding out at this point either have legitimate barriers to access (e.g. can't get time off from multiple jobs, no transportation to clinics, etc.) or are ideologically opposed and cannot be bought off.

        Mandates and harsh punishment for non-compliance is the only way forward.