(29-11-2021 12:49 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  I'm not a fan of compulsory vaccinations, but I would perhaps consider some sort of IQ test for those unvaccinated, in order to ascertain their ability to make a sound judgement, although it is often the case of those with high intelligence that lack common-sense.

(29-11-2021 18:22 )Goodfella3041 Wrote:  

(29-11-2021 12:49 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  I'm not a fan of compulsory vaccinations, but I would perhaps consider some sort of IQ test for those unvaccinated, in order to ascertain their ability to make a sound judgement, although it is often the case of those with high intelligence that lack common-sense.

I’m not sure vaccination hesitancy is so much anti-science or a lack of common sense, as much as it has been folded into our identity and culture wars.

My ‘tribe’ is against the vaccine, so I need to be as well.

So much counter-intuitive nonsense and so many logical contradictions can be traced back to the scourge of identity politics.

I am so ‘anti-government’ that I will fight for my right to own a gun — but I still think the government should intervene in a woman’s reproductive rights. Huh??? That insane contradiction only makes sense when you remember that the Republican Party’s traditional base included the rural South (pro guns) and the Christian Right (anti abortion). It was the politics that sent Alice through the looking glass.

And now it’s vaccinations. ‘People like me’ are not being vaccinated and have had it with masks, so I have to reach for every morsel of evidence and every instagram meme that validates my rationale for doing the same.