Someone please explain this to me:

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39. But how is calling this "a pandemic of the unvaccinated" "berating" them?

Because of personal circumstance, I know quite a few people with cancer (which to be quite frank is a big part of my snippy reaction to all this). Is calling someone with cancer "someone with cancer" berating them? Wouldn't trying tp deny that fact, and minimize its significance, be a bigger insult?

I'm aware of the response in communities of color and the role history plays. But again, how is pointing out that those who are unvaccinated are now bearing the brunt of the pandemic "berating" them?

In fact, if we make an effort to conceal or minimize this fact, isn't that somewhat analogous to the Tuskegee study, which after all was about denying people of color needed treatment? I can see this whole argument flipped on its head: wouldn't at least some suspect that we're now minimizing the severity of what's happening, and failing to point out a simple and effective treatment, precisely because so many of the people at greatest risk are those devalued by our society?