What We Learned from Hating the Unvaccinated

This is from a Canadian perspective. I was in Canada for most of the restrictions, and it really opened my eyes to the dark side of human nature. As soon as it's socially acceptable, people basically line up to hate their fellow humans, and to give unwavering support to "authorities". It's terrifying, but also gives some context to historical events that you wonder how they could have happened.

Meanwhile, Japan’s government has actively told the public to not not discriminate against the unvaccinated. Japan also has very high covid vaccination rate, despite one of the lowest vaccine trust&#x2F;confidence rates in the developed world due to historical scandals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210410&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0na&#x2F;005000c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20210410&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0na&#x2F;00...</a>

I live in Metropolitan Vancouver, somewhere with very low vaccination hesitancy, and still someone in my circle only got vaccinated because of restrictions. Restaurants were re-opening and she couldn&#x27;t join in without getting the vaccine.<p>How knows how many avoided infection at all, severe symptoms, or even death because they were similarly convinced by restrictions and mandates. In this light, I really don&#x27;t have much sympathy for some people who felt a little discriminated against. A public heath emergency doesn&#x27;t care about your petty feelings.

Discrimination against the unvaccinated is justified, morally and scientifically. Public health policy should be made, and was made, based on good data.

I still haven&#x27;t emotionally recovered from this and I might have to switch jobs.

The only thing I say is there is a huge difference between people who lost relatives to COVID and people that got lucky with either no deaths or mild cases. The virus seems random and it shows in the ability to comprehend the consequences of ones own actions. This fluff piece is a slap in the face of over 1 million dead Americans and their relatives. There were always mandated vaccines in a virulent crisis like COVID only this time it got political weaponized.