It's like when you child keeps doing something you know isn't going to end well, but you can't do anything because people have to make their own mistakes sometimes. Or do you step in and help people to another way? How for is the government like maternalism or paternalism? We have seat belt laws now. We curb guns in cities. How long do you let children have their muddled ideas that harm themselves? Why is clarity and thinking so difficult to come by? I spent hours in the park talking to multiple people about their reasons not to get vaccinated. Not health reasons, not even the political stupidity, they just had hazy notions and a firm belief in their hazy rejection of statistics, information and objective knowledge. Then I read this. Same thing. Woman says, "I never get sick." Exact same thing a guy in the park said to me yesterday. Do like it that polio and tuberculosis is largely gone? Quote from the article again: Yet despite their ordeals, none of them changed their minds about getting vaccinated. “It’s just too new,” Mrs. Billigmeier said. “It is like an experiment.” Huh? Are you that slow on the uptake? You're going to double down on being slow on the uptake? Do you get it that the pandemic is now just amongst the unvaccinated? Other countries are begging for the vaccine, and the plague in America is it's vaulted individual freedom to choose to be stupid. Keep on with anecdotal evidence and whataboutism. Here's a radical idea. Act in your own best interest. I guess I need to accept more how I don't act in my own best interest to find peace.
Live and let live! That’s the AA slogan that that helps me not get so upset.
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