Post AAAMb4Z6FKow2KDvrk by sanspoint@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AAAMb3mt8aFvcnfQie by sanspoint@mastodon.social
       2021-08-10T00:30:24Z
       
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       There's a form of conservatism that sees disease as a moral failing. If you get sick, and die, you clearly did something to deserve it. Anti-vax nonsense plays right into this view. People with this world view don't think they're at risk of Covid, because they're morally upstanding. The vaccine—more specifically the governmental and societal pressure to get vaccinated—is an affront to their moral purity.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAAMb4Z6FKow2KDvrk by sanspoint@mastodon.social
       2021-08-10T00:32:17Z
       
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       To be fair, a model of disease based on moral failings isn't an uncommon way of thinking, even on the Left. I know I was livid when I got Covid because I had done everything right—masking, isolating, getting tested. I was morally right, and didn't "deserve" to get Covid. But because one of my partner's coworkers is an anti-mask, Covid-denier who came to work with symptoms, my partner caught it—can't wear a mask if you eat lunch in the office—and gave it to me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAAMb58C8qtRnAdxZI by deathpanels@noagendasocial.com
       2021-08-10T01:04:05Z
       
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       @sanspoint I got Covid six weeks after being vaccinated. Read what the CDC is saying now. Many people who are vaxxed are getting sick, and the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from giving Covid to someone else. There is no reason your vaccinated partner couldn’t have gotten it from a vaccinated person.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAAMbArkotJ7Zuzum8 by sanspoint@mastodon.social
       2021-08-10T00:32:59Z
       
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       Thankfully, we both had very mild cases, and we got vaxxed as soon as we could.I suppose the difference is that I'm willing to protect myself because I know that any sort of moral purity isn't actually protection against disease. Protection against disease is protection against disease. It doesn't matter how good of a person you are.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAAMbCw57lxPzv2OnY by sanspoint@mastodon.social
       2021-08-10T00:33:13Z
       
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       There is a moral component to taking Covid precautions and getting vaccinated, but the moral component is taking actions to protect yourselves and others from an illness that cannot and does not know if you're a good person or a bad person. That's all there is to it.