Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN and not use the site primarily for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do those things and have already had to ask you a few times.
Does this comment really read as flamebait? The article is about vaccines. A vaccine has to be administered to everyone to work. But I’m very skeptical that it’s actually going to happen given the way our medical system works here. So, I predict that there’s a good chance we won’t get herd immunity. I just don’t see how that’s flamebait. It’s more, known facts and extrapolation.
Sure it does. This may be a case of "objects in the rear view mirror are larger than they appear", i.e. people underestimate how provocative their posts are by at least 10x.
US healthcare differences are a classic flamewar topic and nationalistic flamewar is particularly ugly and pointless. Your comment wasn't thoughtful/substantive, it was snarky/hyperbolic. Ergo flamebait.
You can look up the moderator commentary on 'facts' and flamebait (tldr is, you can flamebait with facts) but these aren't even facts - free vaccine has been the stated official plan in the US for months.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html