posted on March 15, 2022 11:04 PM by
u/SevenDaysToTheRhine
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Covid hysteria drove me from ‘release the vax, I’ll get it when it’s
my turn’ to ‘release the vax but I will not be first in line’ to ‘I
don’t want that vaccine’ to ‘I don’t want any vaccine, ever’ to ‘doctors
don’t know what they’re talking about, I’ll rely on leeches thank you
very much’ just from the shear heavy handed overreaction and callous
disregard for truth. I do not, particularly, care whether this is a
reasonable position or not
Got bad news. I specifically took myself off the organ donor registry
after the UK entered a third lockdown.
What the fuck
I did it too and given that most people were in support of lockdowns,
then I think it’s reasonable to conclude that it’s likely the average
needer of fresh organs also did. This makes them an enemy, there is no
equivocating to be had here. Preventing my death from benefiting my
enemies is a perfectly reasonable course of action. They might be allies
or innocent, but they probably are not.
Gotta stick it to those ... people in renal failure. Good god, every time I see a new take from these people they sink to a level I didn't realize was available for sinking to.
Atrocious. This might be one of the worst comments I’ve ever read. It’s difficult for me to fathom how somebody could even arrive at this position.
Kids, remember: reactionary contrarianism — not even once!
It isn’t that they’ve become stupid, its that they were always
stupid, but society was sane enough that they could channel their
energies into good works without having a cause to bring out their
innate stupidity. This isn’t something outrageous and offensive, this is
society. Human society is built on stupidly decent people. I suspect
that pro-lockdown intellects do not quite understand the consequences of
their policies, being as smart as they are.
god i love this comment
it’s not anti-lockdown people’s fault that they’re being stupid, it’s
the fault of the people who put the lockdown policies into place, not
realising the effect this would have on a bunch of stupid people
I think [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ra1d2d/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_december_06/hnovt3u/) is my favorite:
>Let’s cut through the noise of the conversation - do you think a free person should be taken at gunpoint to a small room they are physically unable to leave - because they don’t want to wear a seatbelt?
Incidentally, on the opt out thing in the UK, the way you opt out of
organ donation is you fill out one form online with some basic info,
it’s not like anyone’s making it hard for you. The old way was you
ticked one box on another form when you were doing other basic admin.
About 80% of people were fine to be registered as donors so what the
change was at least designed to do (and in practice does, if anything)
was pick up some slack on people who hadn’t ticked a box in a while.
You can make hay out of some metaphysical details about bodily
autonomy if you must and still be wrong, but politically what the change
did wasn’t to transfer ownership of a corpse from the deceased citizen
to the state - where previously this was supposedly a solemn voluntary
transfer - but reinforce people’s existing commitment that their organs
in death voluntarily belong to the commons, with the state as
intermediary to facilitate that.
To put it another way, the old system was that while the state (well,
the medical system) was looking after your body in transit to the grave
they had to check if you’d ticked a box that said “I don’t need my heart
anymore, cheers”, whereas now they assume you’re cool with it unless you
clicked two (2) links and filled out a form with your address saying
“nah imma keep it” - and they still have to check first. At no point is
the state in the way saying “nah this shit is mine now, daddy’s gotta
eat”.
Remember when sneerers got blamed for making covid worse?
(And remember when ssc wore a full respirator long before it was
clear it was needed or mandated (every day themotte drifts further and
further from Scotts light)
it particularly shits me when lesswrongers claim they were genuises for worrying about covid in feb 2020
FUCKING EVERYONE WAS WORRYING ABOUT IT IN FEB 2020, I WAS WORKING MY ARSE OFF TO MAKE SURE OUR WORK-FROM-HOME WAS FULLY IN ORDER
jfc these fucking people
#overcomingbias
What the fuck
This is from a different person.
god i love this comment
it’s not anti-lockdown people’s fault that they’re being stupid, it’s the fault of the people who put the lockdown policies into place, not realising the effect this would have on a bunch of stupid people
Incidentally, on the opt out thing in the UK, the way you opt out of organ donation is you fill out one form online with some basic info, it’s not like anyone’s making it hard for you. The old way was you ticked one box on another form when you were doing other basic admin. About 80% of people were fine to be registered as donors so what the change was at least designed to do (and in practice does, if anything) was pick up some slack on people who hadn’t ticked a box in a while.
You can make hay out of some metaphysical details about bodily autonomy if you must and still be wrong, but politically what the change did wasn’t to transfer ownership of a corpse from the deceased citizen to the state - where previously this was supposedly a solemn voluntary transfer - but reinforce people’s existing commitment that their organs in death voluntarily belong to the commons, with the state as intermediary to facilitate that.
To put it another way, the old system was that while the state (well, the medical system) was looking after your body in transit to the grave they had to check if you’d ticked a box that said “I don’t need my heart anymore, cheers”, whereas now they assume you’re cool with it unless you clicked two (2) links and filled out a form with your address saying “nah imma keep it” - and they still have to check first. At no point is the state in the way saying “nah this shit is mine now, daddy’s gotta eat”.
Remember when sneerers got blamed for making covid worse?
(And remember when ssc wore a full respirator long before it was clear it was needed or mandated (every day themotte drifts further and further from Scotts light)
Reactions to covid have been so weird.