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Remove the Unvaccinated From Society, Says Radical Leftist Noam Chomsky

by mosesman

  • Remove the Unvaccinated From Society, Says Radical Leftist Noam Chomsky
    by Kyle Schmidbauer, October 26, 2021, https://thelibertyloft.com/
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — I’ve always found Noam Chomsky to be paradoxical by nature — he somehow manages to be the most prolific political philosopher of our time whilst simultaneously being decidedly terrible at the craft. An interview clip from September featuring the nonagenarian socialist, which on Monday found itself trending on Twitter, serves as an excellent case in point.
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    In the clip, Chomsky, asked for his opinion on vaccine mandates, suggested that while refusing vaccination is ultimately an extension of one’s free will, such a decision should also entail insistence that the unvaccinated isolate themselves from society.
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    “If people decide ‘I am willing to be a danger to the community by refusing a vaccine,’ they should then say ‘Well, I also have the decency to isolate myself,’” Chomsky states in the clip. He goes on to say, “If it really reaches the point where they are severely endangering people, then, of course, you have to do something about them.”
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    Everything that Chomsky says in the above clip is either verifiably false, morally reprehensible, or both. First, Chomsky’s entire case is predicated on the notion that the unvaccinated pose an existential threat to the vaccinated, which is a blatant lie.
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    It’s a lie for the simple reason that the vaccines, by and large, work. Breakthrough infections are exceedingly rare, and deaths from breakthrough infections are even rarer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, out of some 220.5 million Americans who have received at least one COVID vaccine dose, only 10,857 have died from breakthrough infections — that translates to around .005% of the vaccinated population. Simply put, the vaccinated have a minimal chance of dying of COVID, and scapegoating the unvaccinated for the breakthrough infections that do happen is little more than a crock of tribalistic nonsense.
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