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> But in addressing those questions, we have to consider consequences of their political action, which are accounted in tens or even hundreds of human lives los
by ghoward 5y ago
> But in addressing those questions, we have to consider consequences of their political action, which are accounted in tens or even hundreds of human lives lost EACH DAY.
Sure, if we do the same for the politicians like New York's governor who forced nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients and actually killed people.
However, is there political action really killing people? The CDC had admitted that they have no data showing that naturally immune people spread the virus [1], but vaccinated people do. So perhaps those politicians are helping save lives by encouraging people to become naturally immune instead!
In other words, you assume they are killing people. That assumption is disingenuous.
> What do we value more? Human lives, or the right of immoral political actors to exploit the drawbacks and imperfections of our fragile democratic processes?
The slowness of democratic processes, and allowing people to make their own decisions are features, not bugs.
Also, the biggest killer of people throughout history has always been governments that are out of control. This is a case of a government going out of control, which has far more deadly potential than not getting vaccinated for a virus with a 99+% survival rate and where the vaccinated still spread the virus.
[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/12/cdc-admits-it-has-no-evidence-of-recovered-covid-patients-spreading-the-virus/ https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/12/cdc-admits-it-has-no-ev...