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Originally Posted by soundman98
TBH, i'm a little surprised this is the point that sets you over the edge.
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Unfortunately, there have been a distressingly large number of things that have happened recently that have pushed me over the edge. This is just one of many. A lot of people have done worse things that have resulted in greater and longer lasting harm to more people than this.
But it still strikes me as especially vile and contemptible, maybe in part because of the pettiness of the person who did it, for several reasons.
1. The coronavirus pandemic is a horrific catastrophe. At least 20 million Americans have become infected and 350,000 have died to date. Worldwide, officially about 84 million cases and almost 2 million deaths. The actual numbers are probably significantly higher.
2. So many people are risking, and giving, their lives in the face of the pandemic. Physicians and nurses caring for COVID-19 patients are literally risking their lives to do so. Many have paid with their lives while trying to help others, lives that might have been saved if they had been vaccinated.
3. So many people are at great risk of getting infected, and having a poor outcome. Like our neighbors who are in their 80's. We sit on pins and needles every time they insist on going out of their home, despite us doing our best to shop for them and give them no reason to go out (and we're not exactly low-risk either being in our 60's).
4. Many people don't realize what an incredible miracle it was to have not only one but two highly effective vaccines in just one year's time. The typical time to develop a vaccine is 10-15 years. The fastest it's ever been done before was 5 years. Most initial efforts fail, and it takes several iterations before finally getting a product that works. Sometimes it never works. Despite 40 years of effort and billions of dollars, there is still no effective vaccine for HIV. For the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to achieve 95% effectiveness within one year of starting both programs is science-fiction level amazing.
Right now the need for the vaccine vastly exceeds the available supply (excepting some local situations where brain-dead imbeciles choose to not get vaccinated). It's worth more than its weight in platinum, because it has the ability to literally save people's lives. Distribution logistical problems aside, so many hundreds of millions of people need to be vaccinated, some more urgently than others.
Yet, this disgusting, narcissistic, self-absorbed, evil jerk comes along and commits a purely malevolent act of wanton destruction just for the cruelty of it. Maybe because it's impossible for me to put myself in the head of this cretin and try to imagine what could possibly have been going through his two functioning neurons to do what he did (I'd say even fewer than two neurons, but it probably takes at least that to control a hand removing vials from a freezer).
It's not that I can 'understand' criminals and scum doing barbaric things to others for the sake of their own enrichment, power, ego, etc., but it's possible to imagine why they thought it was in their interest to do so (causing harm to others to benefit themselves). In this case, I just can't comprehend why this useless pile of cytoplasm did what he did.
Because of what he did, some people will not get vaccinated. Some of those will certainly get infected, and some of those will die. This person is a murderer, plain and simple.