> I'm far more worried about the degenerates on my route from the train station than I ever was about coronavirus. And I'm personally far more worried about th

> I'm far more worried about the degenerates on my route from the train station than I ever was about coronavirus. And I'm personally far more worried about the 'degenerates' who might get my immunocompromised grandfather sick, than the people I meet on my way to the bus stop. You probably would be too, if you were sick, or lived in a 'better neighbourhood', or were better at analyzing long-tail risk[1]. Unlike the people refusing to vaccinate, he doesn't have a choice in his condition. He gets to live with the selfish, ignorant decisions made by others. [1] Contagious, preventable diseases maim and kill vastly more people every year than <mentally ill people who are refusing to take meds>[2], but for some reason, you're more scared of the latter than the former. [2] The solution to them is a pinprick, and sometimes a day of discomfort. The solution to mental illness is often a lifetime of meds that make you either want to crawl out of your skin, or feel utterly dead on the inside, or be completely disembodied, or just plain make you suicidal. There's a good reason people refuse medication for their issues. There's no good reason for why people refuse to get vaccinated.