It's extremely hard to talk about something like COVID and the vaccine where certain populations have had 180 degree opposite experiences with it.

Some people are extremely vulnerable to it and need to be vaccinated against it and assumed that people against taking the vaccine were out to kill them with COVID. Other people don't, but when forced to, they assumed that the vaccine was out to kill them with side effects.

I've noticed that political divides are forming more and more over such mortal dangers. It's impossible to accept the other side if you think their actions will lead to your death.

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People spend so much time blowing the tail risks of anything out of proportion and you get stark polarization where there should really be a reasoned evaluation of possible outcomes and solutions. It's ridiculous. Nothing is safe from extreme views because they're extremely easy to express and hard to debate against. Extremism is the default political view nowadays and I hate it. It's manufactured cultural division and incitation of cultural warfare.