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Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers’ deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 9, 2022 | Michael Hiltzik

Posted on 01/10/2022 2:05:16 PM PST by KingofZion

Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma:

How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated?

On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.

On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus, including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital or the grave can be viewed as receiving their just deserts.

That’s even more true of those who not only refused the vaccine for themselves, but publicly advocated that others do so.

*** That brings us back to the tenor of the online reaction to the deaths of Ernby and her fellow anti-vaxxers. Some of those who object to the tone of the commentary are merely voicing a variation on the “civility” argument that was commonly raised against critics of the intemperate and inhumane policies of the Trump administration.

As I observed then, pleas for “civility” are a fraud. Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness. Typically, they’re the work of hypocrites.

*** It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents. And it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave behind.

But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled.

Nor is it wrong to deny them our sympathy and solicitude, or to make sure it’s known when their deaths are marked that they had stood fast against measures that might have protected themselves...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; covid; covid1984; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; michaelhiltzik; nonvaccinedeaths; notnews; vaccination; vaccinedeaths; vaccines; vaxtardsluvdeath; whatshisfrnick
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To: KingofZion

It seems strange that the LA Times wants to send dead anti-vaxxers to the desert.

Or maybe the idiot who wrote this, and their idiot editor at the LA Times, don’t know the difference between desert and dessert.


21 posted on 01/10/2022 2:18:02 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: KingofZion
You have to wonder how many out there are quietly remembering the names of people like this LA Times writer for future reference.
22 posted on 01/10/2022 2:18:17 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: KingofZion

Soooo, by this logic, mocking vaxxers is also necessary…

An airborne virus with a 99% survivability rate is nothing to lose your mind and rational thought over.


23 posted on 01/10/2022 2:19:27 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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Hiltzik admits to being a ghoul, then. Literally admitting he has no humanity and feeds on human death and misfortune.


24 posted on 01/10/2022 2:19:43 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: NTHockey

They are now “GMO”. Unvaxxed? Plain old regular.


25 posted on 01/10/2022 2:21:01 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: NTHockey

I guess we’re going have some chuckles when the vaxed start kicking off, right?
Every man’s death diminishes me for I am involved with mankind


26 posted on 01/10/2022 2:22:38 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: NTHockey

Revenge will be cold as they get mad cow disease or whatever happens to them


27 posted on 01/10/2022 2:22:51 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: KingofZion

28 posted on 01/10/2022 2:26:55 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KingofZion

Hey Michael! How does it feel to wake up every day in an evil state of mind? Would not want to be someone as narcissistic and hateful as you. Here is a good option for you: stay as far as you can away from me.

Sign me…UNVAXXED!!!


29 posted on 01/10/2022 2:28:59 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s not gaslighting. It is just liberals being liberals. Bigotry and hate is what they do


30 posted on 01/10/2022 2:28:59 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: KingofZion

This will be a National sermon on the value of grace and humility.

Or....the wealthy and powerful vaxxed will use the power of the state to harvest the undamaged organs of the unvaxxed in an attempt to forestall hell.


31 posted on 01/10/2022 2:30:52 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: KingofZion
I could sort of see the idea of "using" the death of someone who advocated against the vaccine, then got Covid and died to illustrate the importance of getting vaccinated. In terms of argumentation, it shouldn't be off limited even if you disagree with the point their making. But that is very different from literally mocking someone who died. There is absolutely no excuse for that, period.
32 posted on 01/10/2022 2:32:17 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: KingofZion

LA Times: “It’s now OK to hate the following groups: . . .”


33 posted on 01/10/2022 2:32:24 PM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: KingofZion

“...sober medical advice...”

Advice from whom? Dr. Fauci? If you don’t like his advice today, wait a few days, he will change it something entirely different. And you just might not like that advice very much either.


34 posted on 01/10/2022 2:36:01 PM PST by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: KingofZion

One apparent side effect of the vaxx is a self-righteous, arrogant, smugness.


35 posted on 01/10/2022 2:36:55 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Secret Agent Man
Vaccine Ingredients – Fetal Cells
36 posted on 01/10/2022 2:37:59 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: KingofZion

Spoken like a true apparatchik...

Sieg Heil...


37 posted on 01/10/2022 2:38:28 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: aimhigh
LA Times: “It’s now OK to hate the following groups: . . .”

Cannot hold my breath long enough until the LAT comes out and starts making fun of those who died from butt sex.

38 posted on 01/10/2022 2:40:31 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: KingofZion
Friday and Gannon discover an LA Times Reporter...

39 posted on 01/10/2022 2:43:56 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: KingofZion



40 posted on 01/10/2022 2:45:08 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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