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dofmtoday at 4:25 PM1 replyview on HN

I literally did not say that vaccine and vaccine adoption has anything to do with unions. Why would you ever think I did? It's an analogy.

(Though as it goes, I suspect vaccine rollout and universal healthcare does, in fact, owe some of its ability to function to the products of the organised labour movement; national, universal healthcare in the UK literally sprang from the first Labour government)

If you can't understand why I am comparing anti-union with anti-vax, then I think you don't really understand the point I am making about history, or about culture.


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ericmaytoday at 4:50 PM

> I literally did not say that vaccine and vaccine adoption has anything to do with unions. Why would you ever think I did? It's an analogy.

???

> we don't need unions anymore are engaging with the status quo in the same way as people who say we don't need vaccines anymore.

> If you can't understand why I am comparing anti-union with anti-vax, then I think you don't really understand the point I am making about history, or about culture.

If you want to remove vaccines and these analogies that's fine but you're clearly doing something you're claiming you are not.

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