I think people should get vaccinated but I’m finding this “two tier society” which is being created unsettling. I don’t think that is part of some “government plot”. People can, after all, choose to get vaccinated. But I don’t like the idea of those who choose not to being treated like second class citizens who can’t get certain jobs or travel or go to certain venues
I think that globally, we are seeing a second tier of nations that don't have access to vaccine resources versus nations that have plenty of vaccine.
In America, this 'tiering' is being promulgated politically. The right wing is driving the anti-vax/anti-mask movement because it helps their cause (holding power.) These Republicans screaming about wearing a mask are all vaccinated, their families are vaccinated and if they get sick, they have access to the finest health care in the country. Do you really think that the governor of Texas would let his children romp and play with a contagious person not wearing a mask. The Republicans know that by creating antivaxxers, they are actually creating 'antiDemocrats.' The Republican sales pitch is that they are protecting our liberties from the terrifying homosexual, liberal, socialists. They don't care about the people they brainwashed ending up in the ICU. These antivaxxers think that the general public is being manipulated by some government/media cabal but the joke's on them.
There is one, straightforward question we all have to ask ourselves.
How bad would a public health crisis have to be before we mandate public measures to curtail its spread?Whenever I ask an antimasker, a conservative or conspiracy theorist this question, all I ever get is a lot of hot air about personal liberty, the rise of socialism and a lot of bullshit but no answer. I have yet to hear a Republican politician take a stand with a real answer.
I have asked lot of people this question and posted it on forums. The only actual answer I've ever gotten came from Thork, whose benchmark would be a global mortality percentage (millions of dead people.) If a politician is going to ask for my vote, my support, they will answer this straight forward question in a straight forward way or they can go fuck themselves.