(10-02-2023, 10:57 PM)Snarl Wrote:(10-02-2023, 09:06 PM)Ninurta Wrote: "Scientists" may be the High priests of the New World religion, but they are not gods. Should they start tinkering with people on such a mass scale, they ought by rights to get tinkered back with, with extreme prejudice.
But, they did already.
I remember quite vividly being told I wasn't going home if I wasn't vaxxed.
Let me add: I heard a theory today that the forced compliance over COVID-19 was an effort to separate the compliant from the hard core. The next time ... what if ... the bug really is a killer and the vaccine is the only thing that'll save you? How many could die trying not to be fooled a second time?
I'm surprised you didn't just tell them to fuck off and die, and then sneak back in through the porous southern border! Just put on a sombrero and serape, and ride a donkey right across the border - no one would even question your vax status then!
One of these times, the bug really WILL be a killer. We are overdue. But the cure cannot be worse than the disease. There has to be a better way, a safer way, a more scientific and less totalitarian way.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake