what’s the alternative? if somebody can’t be reasoned with should we just force-vaccinate them? then you’re just providing them with much needed conspiracy confirmation from their perspective. if they’re so far down the antivaccine rabbit hole, best thing to do is distance yourself (physically, too) and let nature play out. no sense trying to save them who don’t want to be saved.
propaganda (where I am including fascists now) is also tricky due to the built in failsafe that ‘if they disagree with us, we are right, there’s the proof’. how do you even combat that? with vaccines, fence-sitters might be swayed by the potential risk to health if they don’t take it and some survival instinct may kick in, but propaganda is free to take up with almost no risk to immediate survival.
We may not be allowed to forcibly vaccinate people, but I’d argue we could quarantine them. If someone has a history of attacking people we lock them away to protect the majority.
If someone refuses to get vaccinated without compelling medical reason, thus deliberately increasing their risk of an infection, and don’t wear PPE, thus deliberately increasing the risk they pose to those around them, that is a very similar situation, albeit with less violence.
The failsafe in fascist reasoning only works if you have no understanding of logic, which obviously they don’t. But yeah, it’s like playing chess with a pigeon.
what’s the alternative? if somebody can’t be reasoned with should we just force-vaccinate them? then you’re just providing them with much needed conspiracy confirmation from their perspective. if they’re so far down the antivaccine rabbit hole, best thing to do is distance yourself (physically, too) and let nature play out. no sense trying to save them who don’t want to be saved.
propaganda (where I am including fascists now) is also tricky due to the built in failsafe that ‘if they disagree with us, we are right, there’s the proof’. how do you even combat that? with vaccines, fence-sitters might be swayed by the potential risk to health if they don’t take it and some survival instinct may kick in, but propaganda is free to take up with almost no risk to immediate survival.
We may not be allowed to forcibly vaccinate people, but I’d argue we could quarantine them. If someone has a history of attacking people we lock them away to protect the majority.
If someone refuses to get vaccinated without compelling medical reason, thus deliberately increasing their risk of an infection, and don’t wear PPE, thus deliberately increasing the risk they pose to those around them, that is a very similar situation, albeit with less violence.
The failsafe in fascist reasoning only works if you have no understanding of logic, which obviously they don’t. But yeah, it’s like playing chess with a pigeon.