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I don't see how scapegoating a group of people is the responsible thing to do. Telling the truth and being as transparent and honest as possible would be much more effective. The scapegoating, demonizing and dehumanizing of people who are reluctant to get vaccinated only makes the push for vaccines look like there is a sinister agenda at play. If the vaccines are harmless, then why does the government and the media have to rely on scapegoating and demonizing a group of people?
You're not going to find a home for reason here. A lot of these guys just seem to have very, very strong authoritarian leanings that they're not aware they have.
It's obvious that the communications tactics used to get people to mask up or gt vaccinated are more likely to have the opposite effect (and also more likely to make events like that in the OP more common). But these are not people who care about that. They care about telling other people what to do.
You can tell by the way they say things like "the government's mandating nothing" when it's clear that state and private actors are combining resources to ensure that life is unlivable without following "mandated" behaviour.
They're the same people who ignore Fauci's flexible "integrity", because it was hidden behind plauisibly deniable disingenuousness, and who are quite happy to see freedom of speech be eroded, because they think that free speech need not be protected from private entities who own public spaces.
Again, they have strongly authoritarian sympathies. You're not going to easily get around that with words.
Which is why less grounded people pick fights with bank managers.
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