This is an actual tweet from Joe Biden

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[–]blowininthewind 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

i mean this is correct in a sense from a classic liberal standpoint (john stuart mill) that the individual ought to be free to do as they wished unless they caused harm to others.

[–]One_Jack_MoveLibertarian Party 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I hope you aren't suggesting that not getting the vax is "causing harm to others". That line is Bullshit. Way more harm has come to others from world leaders/governments locking us all down for a year. The damage from their overreaction will go one for decades! For what could have been pretty much done with in a year if we just isolated the at-risk until the vax was ready and then let people decide what the best choice is for their own personal risk-reward of getting the vax. That is a Libertarian (classic liberal?) point of view, IMO.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Way more harm has come to others from world leaders/governments locking us all down for a year

It's hard not to notice that many of the cars on the road are newer now than they've ever been in my lifetime. We got one too. We have more money these days. Our investments are doing fantastic generally.

It's the first time a lot of people aren't living paycheck to paycheck anymore. I know it wasn't good for everyone, and there's of course the fear printing all this money is going to lead to rampant inflation, or the markets will crash. And they might.

But overall this went way better than I had imagined a year ago.

[–]One_Jack_MoveLibertarian Party 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Tell that to the best man in my wedding that committed suicide 7 months ago.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's sad.

But overall death by suicide was down about 7% last year.

There's are fewer such people than there would have been.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My condolences for your loss but that's going to be a little difficult.