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It's really unfortunate that vaccines got sucked into the culture war / tribalism / political divides. That meant that a dialogue about risks and benefits of de
by titzer 5y ago
It's really unfortunate that vaccines got sucked into the culture war / tribalism / political divides. That meant that a dialogue about risks and benefits of deploying a response to a public health crisis got tinged with distrust, anger, and division in a way unprecedented in modern times. What I've seen is that it's raised the temperature of every interaction to anticipate the worst possible response and preemptively defend against it. Threatening emails without provocation sound a bit like that dynamic. It sucks for everyone. But it's hard to de-escalate.
- pinephoneguy 5y ago>But it's hard to de-escalate. It's trivial to de-escalate for WFH companies at least; We agreed last century that forced medical treatment was wrong. Don't do that and people can hold whatever opinions they like about the vaccine individually.
- spoonjim 5y agoSo requiring the MMR vaccine for preschoolers is like Unit 731?
- titzer 5y agoExpecting that your ideological opponents to completely back down in order to de-escalate is not de-escalation. De-escalation is incremental and generally done in small lock-steps, with all parties relaxing their postures, not by asserting polarizing and simplistic absolutes and expecting to "win". What you wrote above is part of the dynamic that prevents de-escalation.
- vineyardmike 5y ago> We agreed last century that forced medical treatment was wrong And yet require vaccines for large part of life pre-covid with no prior complaints.