Imagine you're in a highrise building and the floors below you are on fire

[Bucky]

2. Allegories are used when the answers aren't obvious to everyone

This applies both to bad analogies ( I won't get vaccinated cuz I ain't a guinea pig!) and good ones (Seat belts are not 100% guarantee either, but you're an idiot not to wear them).

I'm tired of two things, in the following order: GOP's comparing wearing a mask to Jews wearing yellow triangles and frustrated proscience people making the Darwinism joke as if the anti-maskers are only gonna hurt themselves.

When your canoe is sinking, you try to save the whole boat. It's only when we've gotten safe to shore that you hit the deniers over the head with the buckets they refused to use.