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[–] shads@lemy.lol 10 points 4 days ago

At this point why don't we just prepare a Petri dish with a sample of every infectious disease we can get to co-exist, call it a freedom lick and get the process out of the way with these muppets. Rather than wasting all that time and effort to educate them just give natural selection a head start. Plus we could immediately quarantine them to stop spread through the community. I have a family member or two who will elbow people out of the way to get their lick in, and it will be a shame to lose them, but not as much of a shame as them infecting my cousin (who has Cystic Fibrosis and has to follow a modified vaccine schedule, not sure of exact details just know she has to be super careful everytime flu season or a new Covid variant rolls around) and killing her.