Sorry but this is a continuation of stuff I bitched about last time. I have to after seeing this.. Group Manslaughter . There is nothing acceptable about this. Intractible anti-vaxers and anti-maskers are responsible for this and can just eat shit. And if you fall into the catagory of vaccine hesitant, I understand your trepidation. It’s completely normal to question things. I am aware shaming you is counter productive. But for god’s sake what more proof do you want? These vaccines are miraculously effective and safe. And hardly anything in life is without risk. Every year over 5000 people die in this country choking on food. Armed with this information it would not surprise me at all if a few hard core conspiracy enthusiasts gave up eating.
Every sane person in this country wants to put this virus behind us. By now it is obvious what is needed to get that done. Specifically it will require having a population that is as close to universally vaccinated as posssible, and wearing masks, testing and contact tracing whenever needed until that densely vaccinated population is achieved. At this point in time it is mind-boggling that so many people do not understand this, or even worse, understand it and still refuse to participate in this imperative.
Assholes that believe mandatory vaccination or masking are somehow infringements on their liberty have a very narrow perspective of the concept. If we all want freedom from this disease, we need a collective effort to enjoy it. Without it, we will become locked into an ongoing loop of viral mutation. Disruptions, health concerns and frustration will continue. In a vary large measure liberty will evade all of us if we stay on this trajectory.
That is no more apparent than what is happening in our hospitals presently. With the development of the vaccine, we once had the ability to crush covid, at least in this country. Because so many people decided, for whatever reason, their individual rights were more important than the common good, we are where we are with covid surging again. Historically this nation has been better than this. The ideal of freedom and liberty that unvaccinated people are bringing into emergency rooms along with their disease I imagine mutates into the very real concepts of carelessness and selfishness in the eyes of hospital staff. Who can blame them. A logical but admitedly dysopian step for hospitals to implement would be mandatory vaccine passports for admission. Screw these unvaccinated people who believe freedom means they have complete access to a hospital bed at the expense of someone else who is more responsible.
If you have been unfortunate enough to observe local school or county board meetings lately, you might have noticed some people seem to believe freedom of speech belongs only to those who can scream the loudest. Depending on how well controlled the meeting is, it also seems that is not always an incorrect position. If you are one of those dip-shits utilizing this technique to futily argue that proven virus mitigation methods are liberty infriging or don’t work, just review what is going on in the nation’s school districts. Those without masking mandates are reporting far more covid cases, symptomatic infections and quarantines than schools mandating masks. The lesson is we should listen to health experts, not politicians or conspiracy theorists.
Man’s Impassioned Speach Inspires Neighbors to Secure Famlies and Homes
Such brave words that Henry gave breath
‘for me it is liberty or death’
how could he know
so long ago
there’d be this many people on meth