Covid 19 conspiracies dump

[Rev. Rye]

Most of the population voluntarily drive their cars safer than they might at a junkyard rally, too - but that doesn't reduce the argument for traffic laws.  You just need that one yahoo at a stoplight.  

Pandemics are similar in this regard.  Particularly in places like the us, where life itself is a commodity sold for-profit.  Unfortunately, we have many more than just one yahoo at our stoplight, and they're all insisting on their right to plow their car into other people at the intersection.  Anything less is just another example of how we're abrogating their white rights.  It should be a silly comparison - but it isn't..because the diehard white rightists actually do believe that they aren't required to have a license to drive, aren't legally obliged to follow the laws, and can't be compelled to pay fines for breaking them.  They're sovereign citizens freely travelling in the land.  It's all of a piece.

It's not exactly a surprise how we got here, or that the comparison to our friends in the north is so stark - but don't worry, we're exporting our domestic terrorists and their ideology, so it's only a matter of time until the IA's of canadia reach critical mass and we, as usians, no longer have to feel uniquely embarrassed by them here in n. america.

You go on about whites (what does that have to do with this conversation? Just can't help yourself?), but blacks are actually the least likely to have taken the vaccine or to be fully vaccinated. In supporting vax mandates, you are supporting people losing their jobs, which disproportionately effects black people. Good job. You are harming blacks more than anyone else. White supremacy at work. I'll stand up for these black folks, if no one else here will.

Just for the record, I looked into the issue of vaccine hesitancy among black people. While there was significant hesitancy early on, it's cooled down significantly in the months since the vaccine was introduced (the paper also measured hesitancy among white people and it barely went down in the same time frame). And why are they still less likely to actually be vaccinated if this is the case? Especially when Biden says that 90% of Americans live within 5 miles of a vaccination center? Well, then, there's other factors at play. For one thing, that doesn't mean much if the center in question doesn't actually have any doses at the moment. And being within a five mile radius doesn't mean much if you don't have a car ([url=https://nationalequityatlas.org/indicators/Car_access#/]Black people are three times less likely to own a vehicle than white people[/url[), and especially if either you live in a city where the public transport is just that shit, or if the center is in a part of town that isn't readily accessible by public transport.

The key to making such a vaccine mandate be more equitable would involve obviating any and all logistical excuses.