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With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.

> This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world

Missed the point entirely. This is about authorities controlling everything in your life. Happy reading.

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post #4

This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.

> This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world Missed the point entirely. This is about authorities controlling everything in your life. Happy reading.

I didn’t miss the point, he and his wife are just being needlessly stubborn. This isn’t a cause worth sacrificing the safety of your wife and kids for. Regulations exist for a reason. You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”. How is this any different?

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.

While this is true, governments are massively over-stepping their authority. Also, trust in government in post-soviet countries isn't exactly high to begin with. It's one thing to require proof of vaccination for places like restaurants, another to require an electronic pass to buy essentials like groceries.

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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post #6

This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.

While this is true, governments are massively over-stepping their authority. Also, trust in government in post-soviet countries isn't exactly high to begin with. It's one thing to require proof of vaccination for places like restaurants, another to require an electronic pass to buy essentials like groceries.

True, but at the same time we’re not going to win this battle without a very high vaccination rate. Perhaps food delivery or some other mechanism can be set up for the anti-vaccers.

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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post #4

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> This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world Missed the point entirely. This is about authorities controlling everything in your life. Happy reading.

I didn’t miss the point, he and his wife are just being needlessly stubborn. This isn’t a cause worth sacrificing the safety of your wife and kids for. Regulations exist for a reason. You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”. How is this any different?

> You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”

Plenty of people do this, it's pretty easy to get an exemption for most things like that. My parents did it just fine.

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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I notice that for people who are pro-vaccine, this “government authoritarianism” is not taken as, well, authoritarianism. It is rather perceived as the government caring for its people and adopting the necessary measures to control the situation. It’s interesting to see how different groups of society perceive the same issue from completely different angles.

Re: With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society (Twitter)

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world Missed the point entirely. This is about authorities controlling everything in your life. Happy reading.

I didn’t miss the point, he and his wife are just being needlessly stubborn. This isn’t a cause worth sacrificing the safety of your wife and kids for. Regulations exist for a reason. You don’t just get to say “hey I’m going to not vaccinate my kids for polio because I don’t feel like it”. How is this any different?

You are making excuses for segregation. You are so wrong this will lead to war AGAIN, just like last time. We are 6-0 vs despots. About to be 7-0.
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