Being a liberal without being an extremist.

1) They fail to acknowledge that the people who don't want the vaccine are human beings. This is a diverse group of people, not a cartoon stereotype, that includes indigenous people, religious values (yes, this includes diverse groups from Native Americans, to Orthodox Jews, to the Amish, to New Age religions).

2) They fail to acknowledge that they live in a free society where human rights makes it difficult to force people to get a vaccine against their will. Our Democracies by design give people leverage over government mandates.

3) They fail to acknowledge any middle ground. You can support the vaccine and get the vaccine without supporting vaccine mandates. And there are many different ways to instituting policies from voluntary reporting to full lock down. Creating a sensible policy doesn't have to live on the extremes.

4) The fail to acknowledge the cost of their policy. If someone says "I accept that firing people will cause hardships for workers and for the communities they serve", they have my respect even if they still support firing workers. They are accepting that their is a cost and saying it is still worth it.

It denies the voices of Native Americans and African Americans who refuse the vaccine ...

The simple narrative is that everyone who refuses the vaccine is a "Stupid White Magatard".

Other voices who don't want to be forced to get the vaccine are inconvenient, and so they are ignored.

I am not accusing you of "crypto-racism" when I point out that minority groups (including Native Americans) have vaccine resistance.

I am accusing your of a simplistic, one-sided narrative that ignores the difficult issues raised by a policy forcing vaccines on diverse groups of people.I am accusing your of a simplistic, one-sided narrative that ignores the difficult issues raised by a policy forcing vaccines on diverse groups of people.

I am arguing that you are not being racist, and you are disagreeing with me.

You do seem to be saying now that if Native Americans just understand what you already know to be true, that they will see the light and change to your opinion.

(...) “The surprising success of Native Americans is encouraging, and I think it can serve as a model for broader vaccination efforts across the country,” said Latoya Hill, a senior analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The rumors, conspiracy theories and bitter politics that have stalled out the national vaccination effort appear to have gained less currency among Indigenous people. (...)

Native Americans often live far from healthcare facilities. They face some of the worst poverty in the nation. And distrust of federal authorities runs deep.

For many experts — and even many tribal leaders — it was hard to imagine a group that would be more opposed to government-backed vaccines.

“There is going to be pushback to this vaccine,” Jonathan Nez, president of the Navajo Nation, told The Times in December.

In a survey last fall — before clinical trial results came out showing vaccines to be safe and effective — only 35% of Indian Health Service field workers said they would “definitely” or “probably” get shots.

But tribal leaders understood that vaccines were the clearest way out of the pandemic. They took to the radio and social media to promote them, warning that elders faced the greatest danger in communities vulnerable due to high rates of diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

They reminded people of the damage COVID-19 had already wrought — killing Native Americans at 2½ times the rate of white Americans — as well as of the smallpox epidemics of the 18th and 19th centuries that decimated many tribes.

“I framed it in the way that the virus was a monster, just like any other monster that has come to plague the Navajo people and wreak havoc,” Nez explained in an interview this week. “I told them that you’ve got to have armor, and the armor is the vaccine.”

By the end of 2020, as vaccines were becoming available, attitudes were changing. (...)

In a poll of Native Americans by the Urban Indian Health Institute, 75% of respondents said they were willing to get vaccinated. The primary motivation was “a strong sense of responsibility to protect the Native community and preserve cultural ways.” (...)

Aiming to preserve their cultural heritage, nurses also put Native-language speakers ahead in the line. Tribal leaders got shots early to demonstrate that the vaccines were safe.

Nurses drew on credibility from their family ties as they targeted more people to vaccinate. “The patient-nurse relationship is better established because of that trust,” said one nurse, Samantha Allen. (...)

b]In a poll of Native Americans by the Urban Indian Health Institute, 75% of respondents said they were willing to get vaccinated.[/b] The primary motivation was “a strong sense of responsibility to protect the Native community and preserve cultural ways.” (...)

You are pushing a simplistic, one-sided view that ignores reality.

The only person outraged here is YOU.