WittyProfileName2 [she/her]

So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it’s beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn’t know or concerns technical material he doesn’t understand but another author on the paper does?"

Why would you cite a work you hadn’t read and/or don’t understand?

As it spreads through the population, the more likely it is to develop into a strain that the current vaccines are ineffective against. It wouldn’t just be the horse paste fuckers that this would effect.

Also it’d make it harder to reach herd immunity in the population and therefore place immunocompromised people in further risk.

You can’t individualism your way out of a pandemic, everyone who undermines attempts at stopping the spread puts everyone’s lives at risk.