Opinion: Time to say it: We're done with the vaccine refusers

[demmiblue]

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus, and approvals for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines could follow soon. This could be a significant step in convincing the millions of unvaccinated Americans to finally get vaccinated, even if it doesn’t quickly transform the state of the pandemic.

It’s also an opportunity for us to say to the hard-core vaccine refusers: We’re done with you.

We’ll treat you when you come to the hospital, of course, because that’s how medicine works; while doctors and nurses dealing with the wave of covid-19 patients caused by the delta variant might like to turn away anyone who refused to take a vaccine, they won’t. But it’s time to refocus our outreach efforts and our public and private pandemic policies so that accommodating, understanding and pandering to the refusers is no longer one of our chief concerns....

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But just as the virus itself will always be with us, so will the adamant refusers. They’ll be trying out insane new treatments, while the rest of us shake our heads at people who’d rather gargle with turpentine (or whatever the next Facebook remedy is) than get a free lifesaving vaccine. They’ll keep engaging in unhinged and violent public behavior (like assaulting teachers over mask policies), for which they should just be arrested. Our only concern should be keeping ourselves safe from them; they deserve no more consideration than that.

They won’t disappear, but we can treat them like social pariahs. And if they don’t like it? They can go ahead and wallow in their fantasies of oppression and courageous independence. Nobody said “freedom” was free.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/23/time-say-it-were-done-with-vaccine-refusers/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Vax Refusniks

you know where their loyalties lie

[Hekate]

4. gmta -- I've also been thinking of them as Refusniks

And I am so ready for this opinion piece.

My husband and I are about to crawl back in a hole, and because why? Because so many people expect us to conform to their foolishness and they’re living in La-La Land where they think they won’t get hurt and after all we are clearly neurotic.

[niyad]

6. My polite word for them, as well.

[Treefrog]

2. Rec.

[PortTack]

3. SCOTUS ruling Jackson vs Massachusetts 1905. The rights of the individual doesn't not out weigh

The rights of many when it comes to public health.

I am soooo sick of them!

[ffr]

8. K&R

Just a double negative typo though in your subject line.

TY for that!

[Volaris]

14. You wanna put stare decisis in front of this SC?

I mean, my money's on 'Roberts doesnt have dementia YET', but since that equates to diminishing returns over time, how many of those die rolls have we got left?

[wnylib]

15. Put the unvaxxed in separate facilities

e.g. tent hospitals, where they can get care without disrupting the regular hospital facilities for the rest of the population.

[Danascot]

16. And be treated

by people who get their medical training and scientific information from Fox and Facebook

[wnylib]

18. No, I am not expressing frustrated hyperbole.

I am totally serious that this is what we need to do. So give them care by qualified medical people. Just don't let them disrupt the regular functioning of hospitals that the rest of society needs.

You might call it "separate but equal."

[mcar]

5. I have no patience and no sympathy for these idiots

I have tremendous sympathy for the HC professionals who have to care for them.

[aggiesal]

10. I have no patience and no sympathy for these Covidiots ...

There I fixed it for you.

[ffr]

7. "Our only concern should be keeping ourselves safe from them"

It's been that way from the beginning. Reduce your exposure to Kool-aid drinkers. Their brains are broken. Probably due to lead exposure. They want and need to live in their own bubble. Let them. Otherwise, avoid them as much as possible.

[monkeyman1]

9. damn tired of this thoughts & prayers crap , won't work ! not anti-religion either !

[amb123]

11. As far as I'm concerned, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers & COVID deniers are MASS MURDERERS

to be mentioned in the same breath as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Pol Pot.

[Marcuse]

12. It's time.

42 CFR § 70.6 - Apprehension and detention of persons with quarantinable communicable diseases.

a) The Director may authorize the apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release of any individual for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of quarantinable communicable diseases, as specified by Executive Order, based upon a finding that:

(1) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and is moving or about to move from a State into another State; or

(2) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and constitutes a probable source of infection to other individuals who may be moving from a State into another State.

(b) The Director will arrange for adequate food and water, appropriate accommodation, appropriate medical treatment, and means of necessary communication for individuals who are apprehended or held in quarantine or isolation under this part.

[82 FR 6971, Jan. 19, 2017]

[rickford66]

13. My cardiologist said if I didn't take the medication he prescribed .....

I'd be declared non-compliant if I went to the ER with heart pains and could be denied treatment. I asked my personal physician about this and she agreed. So ..... why can't the anti-vaxers be declared non-compliant also ?

[roamer65]

17. They definitely can be segregated into palliative care quarantine facilities.

This should have been started already en masse.

[wryter2000]

22. Great idea

And let non vaxxed medical professionals care for them. Sadly, there are some of those.

[Paladin]

19. Amen. They're in the way of our survival. (nt)

[bdamomma]

20. Those

who refuse to get the vaccine life should be harder for them. No admitting into businesses, they are taking beds away from other medical needs such as cancer treatments or elective surgery. They are making those who believe in science a living hell. If they don't want the vaccine they should tested every week.

Their heads would probably blow up if they believed in truth and facts. Propaganda is deadly and it works.

[Tiger8]

21. Q should open a line of hospitals

Let them go to a Q hospital.

Staff includes "Doctor" Sean Hannity and "Nurse" Alex Jones....with "CNA" Gym Jordan offering special sponge bath fun to favored MAGAt children.