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we allowed anti-vaxxers to dictate public safety measures and make their choice our choice.This is such a disturbing inversion of reality.
What did "anti-vaxxers" do other than eventually be 'permitted' to participate in public life after being designated as second-class citizens in many countries?If our governments hadn’t caved, we could’ve stopped covid before all the mutations.It's funny how the issue isn't even masking or particular reforms.
The frustration is that the totalitarian 'emergency' fascism couldn't be maintained (entirely in some places) or indefinitely.

These people genuinely scare me.
People underestimate how little it would take for them to push for other obscene trespasses. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscienceC.S. Lewis

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