Been reading this back and forth and the density of the people you’re arguing with is unfathomable. You are right.

Ah, so we’ve moved on from “normal lives” to just “life” now.

When did “flatten the curve” become “life can not resume until we reach 100% eradication?”

What a load of horseshit. Justify your shittiness however you like, but it just makes you a liar as well as an asshole.

There are tons of people who think shaming and moral policing are effective public health policy.

Stop spreading outdated information.

Article is from November 2020, before wide distribution of vaccines.

I got my first shot on January 8th, 2021.

If you don’t allow vaccinated people to resume normalcy they will not bother getting the vaccine when an updated one rolls around again, which will be required.

The simple fact is we are not beating Covid by sitting at home. We might get to Covid 0 in 20 years even if we keep the restrictions in place. We need to…

Nope. CDC says it’s fine for vaccinated people to resume activities, and Washington state requires masks in public spaces as it is. Or they did when I was there last month.  Your feelings don’t take precedence over the science, sorry.  

I see a lot of talk like this about the concern that random Americans will contract and spread Covid, but at the same time it’s by far anti-vaxers that are at risk and I also see many wishing death to anti-vaxers. So to me it ends up looking like just shaming for the sake of making people you don’t like feel bad…

Wait, I’m sorry - too soon based on what? The CDC has said that there is no danger for vaccinated individuals to congregate in a mass setting for over a month now. We’re talking about an event that’s not happening for another 2 and half months.

Stay home. Take precautions.  Those of us who are vaccinated are going to resume our lives. Sorry you’re vulnerable, but that’s a you problem, not an everyone else problem.  No one else is responsible for putting their lives on hold to make you feel included.  

If you’re vulnerable, stay home.  If you’re not, and you’re vaxxed, knock yourself out.

Personally, I can’t shake the sense that it’s just a beat too early to congregate by the thousands in a cramped, sweaty convention hall.

I don’t know if you know this, but the US and India are different countries, have different laws, and are at different stages of the pandemic. The US doesn’t need to stay in lockdown to make India feel better anymore than New Zealand should have locked down to make us feel better.

nowhere in my comment do i have that fuck you attitude.

sorry i understand the hesitancy but it’s time to move on and get back out. get your vax shot and start doing the things you were doing before and that you want to do again. if things change again and we need to lock back down and cancel everything again, then we will. but in the meantime, the time has come to plan…

We're either open or not, and since we are, people need to stop trying to guilt people for resuming their lives. You don't feel comfortable? Stay inside. There is nothing wrong about having a convention as long as they require proof of vaccine.

It’s a good story write-up. Just kind of sad that Kotaku rejected my pitches about this cafe over the past few months, then wrote about it. Oh well.