12-27-2021, 02:41 PM
(12-26-2021, 09:21 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(12-26-2021, 08:59 PM)plam Wrote: I don't think we have to stigmatize not being vaccinated. I do think that it is reasonable and indeed necessary, for public health reasons, to apply discrimination against people who are not vaccinated by choice. I don't actually want to share the air with such people. It's part of keeping the substantial majority of those of us who are vaccinated safe.
That only applies to those who have a choice, of course; I exclude under-5s for instance, since they don't have a choice.
I don't really see how that's different from a stigmata...the only difference is that stigmata's are generally "unfair" but are not required to be. But discriminating against people who are not vaccinated seems like it is stigmatizing.
Those might be stigmas, but they're certainly not stigmata.
(A stigmata is a wound that appears on someone's body that matches Christ's crucifixion wounds.)