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> I can't quite make peace with just letting the un-vax'd kill one another off.

Why?

Most of the unvaxxed are in places without access to vaccines and those populations will continue to be a source of new variants. Delta and Omicron both came from places/times that had very limited access to vaccines.

If someone in the US continues to reject vaccination, I don't know what to do about it at this point. But there's big populations that haven't been vaccinated because they haven't had a chance. It's crucial to give them that chance.

People should put more energy/money into getting vaccines to people who want them but don’t have access to them? Why?

Poor people in other countries are still people

People are people.

This tautology doesn’t inform me of anything.

Aside from basic humanitarianism, I'd really like to drop the word "mutations" from the "should my kid see his grandparents" discussion. I only get to do that if we apply public health solutions to public health problems, though.

People who are not you should spent money so your kid can see his grandparents?

Public health care problems (which fundamentally is what COVID19 is, rather than a personal health care problem) require that various human collectives spend money so that people's children can see their grandparents.

Are you this unempathic and selfish in real life?

If asked to pay for children who I don’t know to get meatspace time with their extended gene clan, who I also don’t know, I will decline and recommend they use Zoom.

> Are you this unempathic and selfish in real life?

I do as little as possible for people who do not do for me.

"yes" would have been a shorter answer.

I wanted to be totally clear.

1. Because there is a harmful disease and we have an available protection. It seems obvious that there is moral prerogative to make that protection to those who want and need it.

2. Because the quicker and more widely covid spreads the more chance it has to evolve new variants, and those variants will spread worldwide. So everyone has an interest in slowing it down everywhere in order to protect themselves against potential future variants.

What else would you do with the remaining doses?

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