Thread by @whstancil

This is an increasing number of dudes’ excuse for not having to care about other people, but the cost-benefit analysis is almost exactly the same as it was a year ago: moderate mitigation versus mass death

https://twitter.com/caesarsalad99/status/1432752982387425282

When someone says “it’s not tenable that I have to wear a mask for indeterminate period of time so your parents don’t die” what they’re trying to do is figure out a way they can excuse not caring if your parents die

But a lot of people aren’t vaccinated. You hate the idea of that you might have to protect anyone you see as undeserving at any cost to yourself, so you’re using “They could have gotten vaccinated” as a justification for not caring if they live or die.

https://twitter.com/caesarsalad99/status/1432754916376776709

I mean, if your view is that we should just cordon off the unvaccinated and let them die, okay, but say it. Don’t hide behind this whole “Well there’s just nothing left we can do to slow the spread, time to fully reopen” BS

This isn’t even entirely true, but even if it were, so what? Is your view that a stupid decision not to get vaccinated should mean your life suddenly doesn’t count?

https://twitter.com/CaesarSalad99/status/1432756161032249348

What I hate is that all these guys think they’re liberals, but it’s just by habit. Clearly, presented with a question like “should addicts be left to die in the street” as a matter of first impression, they’d be yelling about personal responsibility like a Fox and Friends host

“You had the information and could have made better choices” - like you’re a conservative. That’s a thing, many people are, but just admit it.

https://twitter.com/simpletonmitts/status/1432757286838194179

No, people who don’t get vaccinated aren’t “scabs,” Jesus Christ. They’re people making a lousy health decision for probably-silly reasons. They’re also family, friends, fathers, mothers, children

https://twitter.com/mdnoshaughnessy/status/1432758165649694722

But look at how hard all the dudes are straining to not care. That’s the core thing. They do not want to care. They are fighting the idea that they need to care, tooth and nail. They want the serenity of having a good political rationale for not caring.

Literally mocking the idea we should care about children losing a parent to COVID

“We shouldn’t have to protect the unvaccinated, who made a bad decision” - again and again, self-styled progressive white dudes are demonstrating that scratch one inch below the surface and they become personal responsibility conservatives

https://twitter.com/brianpmangan/status/1432766878443835397