Wear Your Mask - COVID-19 Thread II

[Inquisitive Raven]

1. Most anti-vax types believe no amount of safety is a fair trade for liberty. Me, I believe in times of obvious emergency, a temporary surrender of some liberty for security until the crisis has passed is not only fair but entirely logical, pursuant to the legal arguments of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. From their view, they fear any loss of liberty being permanent and view anyone willing to meekly submit it as being naive at best and complicit in ensuring a permanent loss of liberty at worst.

This may be an accurate representation of right-wing anti-vaxers, or at least what they claim. Lefty anti-vaxers, by contrast, have an unrealistic notion of how safe a vaccine can be, and if a vaccine isn't perfectly safe, then it's not safe enough. Lefty anti-vaxers also seem to have an unrealistic notion of what vaccine risks actually are, but that's another issue.