Recalling that
little bit of historical memory, I feel comfortable asserting that, given all
the same information, virtually every one the vast majority of vaccine-mandate
supporters who consider themselves in any way on the "left" would be howling in
rage if Donald Trump had proposed, word-for-word, the same policy Joe Biden
just did. His "patience is wearing thin"
with the millions of working-class, including >70% of black, Americans who
are too stupid or selfish to take a risky drug that won't prevent them from
getting sick or infecting others. Fire them all. Howling. That's how
much their position is about the "science."
Die Cast
I've given my reasons for opposing vaccine passports and mandates. Don't think I am dismissive of concern: I have two extended family members who died from--or at least with--Covid. (Both had co-morbidities, one multiple and serious. Not close enough to know more, including their vaccination status.). I know a number of people--of all ages--who have had it before vaccination was available and know it's not trivial. I now know some vaccinated people who have been infected and become sick, also not trivially, having--in their own estimation--caught it from other vaccinated people they hang out with. And I know one person--healthy, with no serious co-morbidities--who died within a few days of being vaccinated. I'm of an age to be threatened by Covid and I take that seriously. If there were a well-tested whole-virus vaccine, I might well take it.
In fact, I'm more afraid of Covid now than I was a year ago, what with all the leaky-vaccinated variant carriers running around. I am also healthy and have no co-morbidities. So I have to make a decision whether to take the chance of getting the disease and having strong immunity if I survive it, or take the chance of having the spike protein erupting throughout my body "trigger[ing] a cascade of changes which disrupt normal cell function" including possible neurodegeneration, and maybe still get the disease, possibly aggravated by ADE, anyway. Tough choice. And guess what? It's mine to make.
So, my (and most people's) reasons to oppose vaccine mandates and passports have nothing to do with stupidity or selfishness or fascism or any of the weak insults those who don't want to know the reasons throw around. I oppose, and everyone should oppose, vaccine passports and mandates because I agree with the scientist who developed the vaccine technology they're trying to force on us, that: "It's just bad science; it's bad policy; it's bad ethics."
Losing Proposition
Still certain that vaccine passports are the right thing to do? You better be. Get ready to confront hundreds of thousands of people like this--firefighters, nurses, hospital workers, delivery drivers, people who have been on the front lines of taking care of things in the three-dimensional social universe while others were chatting in Zoomland--who are going to lose their jobs--even if they are healthy, even if they have better immunity and are no more a "danger to society" than everyone who is vaccinated, because they do not want to take a real risk to their health, because they will not just do as they're told.
Get ready to explain to nurses and firefighters and truckers and bus drivers the absolutely rock-solid scientific justification for throwing them in the street. Because I still haven't heard the demand from those who support vaccine mandates, including leftists, that housing, job, and healthcare guarantees must be a condition of any such policy.
Get ready to explain why the people who are telling them to do as their told White House staff, for example--are not themselves doing as they say. We have to ask--the press has to ask, but it won't--of everyone promoting this at every institution: What are the exemptions? Are there any non-public--i.e., secret--exemptions? Because if you don't think that the vaccine mandate throughout society will work just like the mask mandate did at the Met Gala ,that high-level politicians, CEOs, donors, doctors, and their families will get exemptions and have their own special QR code that beeps them right through every checkpoint, you are... well, naà ¯ve is the kindest word I can think of. Especially if you're a leftist. The people you've helped throw on the street will not be that, er, naà ¯ve.
And yes, doctors.
It is amazing, and shows how adamant the vaccine salesmen medical
bureaucrats are, that they're willing to dump nurses, a crucial resource. But
they really don't want doctors rebelling and speaking up about their misgivings
about the vaccine. This is also a class thing: They know they can get
away--even with leftists portraying all dissident healthcare workers up to
nurses as "stupid"; doctors, not so much.
So I bet they will leave the doctors off the hook. Even if there's a mandate on paper, it won't be enforced. They will be allowed to grant themselves medical exemptions, but they'll be hounded by licensing boards if they try to grant them to anyone else anyone, that is, who's not important. Does anybody doubt this?
Not my interest, but those who are invested in electoral politics might consider the brilliant political framework they are creating:
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
