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I find it hard to say how I feel about people dying from something they chose for themselves. If you’re so stubbornly not vaccinating or doing anything else to protect yourself in the middle of a pandemic, you are actively choosing the disease, right? And not even just for yourself, but for people around you, and ultimately, you’re choosing to prolong the pandemic for all of society. That’s pretty awful. So is dying from a disease, but if you die as a consequence of your own choice to die from this disease, I guess that’s just a pretty horrible form of suicide with way too many side effects.

But of course there people weren’t fully informed; they were misinformed. They chose to believe people who lie to them. They trust people who betray them and are willing to sacrifice your lives to score some political points. They are the victims of a massive misinformation campaign that didn’t just start with the pandemic, but started way back in the 1980s. All of America is the victim of that, and much of the rest of the world too, but these people in particular. They are the dupes mobilised and sacrificed as part of the murderous political game that the Republicans and conservative media have been playing for decades now.

-- Martijn Vos
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/aa6b8d80d96e0139c1dd002590d8e506#14dfdc10d99f0139d03a005056264835

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