(Voluntary) Yellow Stars For The UnVaccinated?

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Backlash against US shop selling 'yellow star' Covid badges

Even in my worst cringe worthy autistic moments, I'm still not as socially clueless as these shop owners and that's saying a lot.

There will be "back door" mandatory vaccination. Government will put pressure on business' who will be the enforcers.
Covid passports will also be a reality in the near future. All for you safety of course.

Yeah bad taste to use a star for Not Vaccinated, they should have used another logo like a circle or a square or an oval.

Expecting us to follow public health measures is the exact same as industrialized mass-murder.

This is the inevitable result of it being acceptable since the end of WWII really, to make faux Nazi comparisons to seemingly everyone and everything one disagrees with to score cheap political points. Quite often people that do this are claiming to be offended by this and offended by that not having a clue of the irony. IMHO a lot of the time the faux Nazi comparisons a lot more offensive than the thing that is triggering them.

Saying "forcing us all to obey stop signs is...fascism!" is one thing. Its dumb and it's hyperbole. But at least it isnt in bad taste.

But saying "forcing us to obey stop signs is GENOCIDE!", or "like the Holocaust", or is "like Stalinist mass murder" is something else. Much worse.

It's ridiculous to have "marks" or "stars" or whatever for the unvaccinated. It reeks of the Nazis, frankly.

I do believe in having to show that you're vaccinated if you want to travel internationally.

It's horrible, insensitive, offensive, and stupid.

People shouldn't need to wear any type of identifying feature, especially if it's imposed by the government.

I'm not against vaccines but it's no one's right to shame or identify people who aren't vaccinated.

Social distancing and public health measures are meant to protect everyone. We shouldn't be close enough to people to read their labels and marker tags, anyway.

Of course if you need to demonstrate your vaccination status for some reason, that's fine. You show your paperwork, or you have it on your phone. There's no need for a public display and invasion of privacy.

The Holocaust connotation makes it that much more disgusting.

It would be terrible if it was being proposed but it's not actually.

It's literally just people trolling by comparing any sort of tracking for who's vaccinated and not to industrialized mass murder. Like, I don't think it's a big deal to require people to be vaccinated (and to show proof) before letting them into crowded indoor spaces without a mask, especially if they're also private property.

So far I haven't seen any evidence that anyone desires an invasion of privacy on this matter, let alone... you know... that.

For those people here who keep saying: "They shouldn't have used yellow stars, they should have used something else," it's obvious the message was lost. They deliberately chose yellow stars to make a point. Just as the Jews were a persecuted minority group in Nazi Germany, these folks are trying to say the non-vaccinated will be treated similarly in the not-too-distant future. Although I don't agree with their tactics, it's clearly a political statement. Any other shape would defeat the whole purpose of their political protest.

And for those of who misunderstood and thought these were mandatory and were troubled by the idea that a government would enforce such a thing...well, you're sort of proving the point of the non-vaccinated yellow star people without even realizing it.

I know they chose yellow stars purposefully as a political statement. That's where I agree with fxe and others, that it's a poor and exaggerated comparison. It shows a lack of respect for Holocaust victims.

Also, I know they weren't mandatory. That's beside the point.