> If it was Ebola instead of COVID-19, 1000% guaranteed that all those antivaxxers would have been banging down the doors to get a vaccine, and would have been raging if the government hadn't rushed it out. All their antivax outrage was because they didn't think they personally were going to die from COVID, and didn't want to help save anyone else's life.

I think you are largely right, but I dont think they have any obligation to save anyone else's life.

I think there would have been better uptake amung republicans if it was presented a optional healthcare choice or suggestion.

> If it was Ebola instead of COVID-19, 1000% guaranteed that all those antivaxxers would have been banging down the doors to get a vaccine

Sadly, no. There is a theory that Ebola cases are really just arsenic poisoning from the mines in the area. That’s the kind of narrative that would take hold realistically.

I would also point out that prior to Bidens election it was mostly Democrats who were saying they weren’t going to take the vaccine when it came out, that it would be rushed and have something wrong with it.

> All their antivax outrage was because they didn't think they personally were going to die from COVID, and didn't want to help save anyone else's life.

Suppose you're right. They're still entitled to their views, they're entitled to honesty from their government, and frankly I'd say the government should not be trying to coerce people into taking an officially-experimental vaccine by the back door any more than they should be directly forcing people to do so.

> 2 million dead Americans later

Maybe. Depends very much on who's doing the calculations.

> complain about a shutdown which should have lasted a few months max if people had done what they were supposed to

Bullshit. Countries with much higher social compliance saw the same endless lockdowns.

Some minutes later, and this is my best guess in the form of original with code comments. I got to the end and then backfilled the group names.

    There's a double layer of irony here,        # There is something wrong and hypocritical.
                                                 #
    where the people                             # People who thought vaccines were good
    criticizing people                           # criticized anti-vaxxers,
    of the ignorance                             # saying the anti-vaxxers didn't realize
    of "unintended" consequences                 # the damage they would cause
    of vaccine fear                              # by scaring everyone away from proper treatment.
                                                 #
    will play defense                            # Those people give excuses
    for the unintended consequence               # for the problem they actually created
    of causing that fear                         # by MAKING the anti-vaxxers afraid in the first place
    by the extremely aggressive pushing          # since they tried too hard
    of vaccine policies during covid.            # to get everyone vaccinated to stop the virus.

Compare to: "Well, the car I was driving is wrecked, and it's all your fault! You should have known that I don't like being told what do to, so by telling me to slow down you forced me to accelerate into that barrier to prove that you aren't the boss of me. We could have avoided this whole mess if you'd simply babied my special needs and irrationalities like an adult."

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