The Antivaxxers Are Ruining It For Everyone

[Celerity]

Something needs to happen, and soon, to save us from the rising tide of idiocrats.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-antivaxxers-are-ruining-it-for



WASHINGTON, DC -- I’m old enough to remember May 2021. It was the month when my second Pfizer vaccination kicked in and it seemed like we were emerging from four years of darkness -- the final year being the darkest. In particular, I was looking forward to returning to the gym, maybe a road trip to the shore for a weekend -- there was a long list of things on my post-COVID to-do list, suffice to say. It turns out, the New Roaring ‘20s ended up lasting about 20 days (give or take) before warning signs began to materialize on the horizon. Like the worst kind of coitus interruptus, it really felt like we were on the verge of escaping the disease. For a moment we tasted freedom, and now it’s being ripped out from under our feet. We were on the verge of being released from prison but at the last minute a gaggle of a-holes framed us for crimes we didn’t commit and now we’re back for another sentence. We’re being held hostage by some of the worst people in the world: chronological adults who are incapable of acting responsibly, mainly because they don’t know how to digest information or to see this as not a personal issue, but as a community one.

They’ll never grasp that getting vaccinated isn’t about them personally, it’s about the community of people around them and, more than anything else, it’s about the urgent process of collectively eradicating the virus from our lives. The antivaxxers are ruining it for everyone, and there’s no sign they’re going to change, not until it’s too late. One of their primary excuses against getting vaccinated, they say, is due to the emergency use authorization to release the vaccines to the public without the usual FDA testing process. As we all know, vaccinologists had been developing the mRNA process for years, so it’s not like the vaccines were devised and manufactured within the span of the pandemic. But what antivaxxers don’t understand is that the hospital treatments specific to COVID were also Link to tweet
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So, if a guy refuses to get vaccinated because he stupidly believes the vaccines are unsafe, he’s likely to get COVID, landing him in a hospital where doctors will apply equally “unsafe” treatments to save his life. Only now, he has COVID, too, and he’s taking up a valuable hospital bed. He could’ve been vaccinated in the first place, like a grownup, and avoided all of it, but now he not only has the disease but he’s being treated with medicine that was just as quickly rushed to market. And if he decides to get vaccinated later, it’ll be too late. Duh. Perhaps equally as confused are the members of the kneejerk rodeo clown caucus that continues to proudly tweet in defense of “medical privacy” and “medical freedom.” Madison Cawthorn is the most recent one. Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire just signed a bill protecting medical freedom, aimed at vaccines and masking. Ironic that the anti-choice, anti-women faction is suddenly all about retaining the freedom of medical choice -- a constitutional right to privacy (except for women, trans people, etc).

At some point soon, I’m betting at least one prominent Red Hat will tweet that the Fourth Amendment guarantees a right to privacy. My money’s on Charlie Kirk. (Of course, the Fourth Amendment is the basis for the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision.) Not for nothing but the “freedom” people are making sure the rest of us will have to, once again, curtail our own freedom to stay healthy. States are reporting everything from upticks to large-scale waves of new variant cases due to antivaxxers and COVID shirkers who refuse to do the right thing -- the adult thing. These people are variant factories, pumping out new iterations of the virus around the clock, each one more powerful than the original. And until they’re snapped back to reality, we’ll never be rid of this pandemic, and I’m not feeling particularly hopeful at the moment. Something needs to happen, and soon, to save us from the rising tide of idiocrats. Not only are they killing themselves, but they’re risking the lives of the responsible ones, you and me, by manufacturing variants that can blast right through vaccine immunity. The culture war is quickly turning into germ warfare, and unless Republican leaders get their houses in order, the forthcoming winter is going to be especially chilling.

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[CrispyQ]

1. We need a ad campaign for 2022, similar to the FBI's Top Ten poster,

with photos of repubs who were anti-vax & anti-mask, & vote their asses out of office. If only our side believed in marketing.

[Botany]

5. The Republicans should have "the triple albatross"* around their necks in 2022 and 2024

* Trump, 1/6/21, and the C-19 Pandemic


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[roamer65]

2. They are the problem.

[BlueWavePsych]

8. Yup

[BeckyDem]

3. I recall all the wrong info they spread about autism.

Drove me crazy.


K&R

[Scrivener7]

4. Something IS happening. Right now. Whatever they think, Covid is going to find them.

There is nothing they can do now to prevent it. And yes, for those of us who are vaccinated there will be a few more months of hardship and inconvenience and need for great caution. We shouldn't be subjected to this, but we are being subjected to it.

But within a few months all these morons, and their innocent loved ones, will have had the virus. They will either be immune, have debilitating long term sickness, or they will be dead.

They may provide enough hosts for a new vaccine-resistant strain to develop, in which case all of us will go back inside and wait for the booster. We can do this. We have done it before. But they will continue to sicken and die.

I am not wishing this on anyone. This is just what is.

I was very angry with them all when I thought there was time for them to prevent it and they weren't doing anything. But that time is over. I am not angry anymore. Just sad about the carnage they have brought on themselves and especially their innocent loved ones that we will have to watch unfold in slow motion.

They can't escape this. It is going to find them.

[thucythucy]

7. My main worry--aside from a vaccine resistant mutation

arising--concerns all the children who will be returning to school in September.

I shudder to think what will happen if we start to see a kill off of children, all because these idiots insist on a) not being vaccinated b) no masks or social distancing and c) open everything! and then d) desperate GOP lies and misinformation designed to somehow blame Democrats and liberals for the resulting catastrophe.

A whole generation of young people is being traumatized by this idiocy.

[LeftInTX]

9. Exactly, it's all those unvaccinated children...

[Scrivener7]

10. I totally agree. That is the real tragedy in this. It is going to be horrible.

[nitpicker]

13. High school graduation at age 20?

For those that manage to not drop out.

The digital divide still exists.

[nitpicker]

14. High school graduation at age 20?

For those that manage to not drop out.

The digital divide still exists.

[Blecht]

6. I love that cartoon!

[Brother Mythos]

11. They truly are one of the reasons we can't have nice things.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Is Vaxed America Running Out of Patience?

Sane and intelligent Americans are getting tired of ignorant idiots who refuse to be vaccinated

Link to tweet

[BigmanPigman]

16. They WANT the Libruls to get sick a d die.

This is the party of cruelty and sadism, kicked into high gear by their Dear Leader, a mass murderer. They don't give a shit about their own lives when it comes to sticking it to the Libruls. They are similarly focused on harming us, even of it means they ignore their own health.