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> certain communities of people

What communities are being targeted? Everyone who leaves their house is affected.

> strongly discouraging open debate

We're debating it here just fine.

> dissenters [..] physically remove themselves

Voluntarily unvaccinated walking COVID vectors? Yes, that's exactly the point.

It’s distressing how such paranoid conspiracy theory mongering is just now accepted even here.

That would be the point if it weren't for the fact that the "debate", from the point of view of those who have actually kept up with the medical, epidemiomological, and ethical literature has been settled.

Yeah, I'm all for pushing willfully ignorant discussion out of the public eye.