A cartoon explains it perfectly.
The question keeps coming up about we feel regarding people who refuse to mask up or get vaccinated when there’s no good reason not to do either one (or both). I’ve decided I have a zero-tolerance unfavorable opinion of these people. A cartoon came across my Twitter feed this morning that explains exactly why:
As the caption to the photo says, this was posted on Reddit by Yenserl6099 but I traced it back to a NYDN Bramhall Cartoons page. (If posting it here violates fair use of copyrighted content, please let me know so I can remove it.)
Yeah. We’d be out of this pandemic if it weren’t for stubborn and stupid anti-vaxxers who claim their personal freedoms (to be idiots, I suppose) are more important than their health, the health of their family and friends, and the health of the nation and world. These selfish, usually misinformed whiners are preventing a timely end of the pandemic, causing the rest of us extended financial, emotional, and even health-related suffering.
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I agree. Saw on the news last night that the unvaccinated parents of 2 children had died of Covid within 6 days of each other. Then the 2 young adult children signed up for the shots! I’d heard of previous cases like this where survivors or surviving family members change their opinions about being vaccinated, but results like these need to be on national news more often.
The trouble is, the folks hearing those stories don’t believe they’re real. I see it all the time on Twitter. They honestly believe these stories are made up by the left to try to change their opinions.
It’s like it has to happen TO THEM for them to wake up. And even then, if they recover from Covid or have a family member recover, they go on to say that it’s just like the flu.
I have a friend in Coeur d’Alene who I’d hoped to visit next weekend when I’m in Spokane and I made the decision not to because he had a mild case of Covid and recovered and thinks it’s all OK. I honestly can’t bear to be with people who think like that. This is serious shit. People are dying or having long-term effects that are changing their lives.
And I’m sick of it. I’m sure you are, too — especially living in Arizona where there are too many of these yahoos.
That cartoon is a perfect summary of my views too. Simply brilliant.
Here in the U.K. we are tantalisingly close to reaching a level of double vaccination which would make the virus fade away.
Alas, the hard-core anti-vaxxers with their anti-science paranoia stops us achieving this easily achievable goal.
I wish I could say that it was comforting to know that we were not the only nation with too many idiots, but it’s not.
Totally agree. I haven’t seen any follow up articles on this but Singapore (I think) has recently come out saying that they are not going to pay for medical care and treatment of Covid patients who are not vaccinated. Kind of surprised this has not gotten more attention.
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I think that’s a great idea. If a person can’t be bothered to protect him/herself, why should medicare/medicaid pay for their medical care? I’m certainly not going to chip in for anyone’s GoFundMe.
My Ex-boss called me from Florida. He said that he got covid and it was like the flu. And all this nonsense was not worth believing. I asked him if he was a Trumpster. He said “Mike, I’m a patriot. Really! He’s no patriot in my book. I told him 700,000 Americans died of the virus. He said “700,000 died but not from the virus. Most were killed by the vaccination and it’s called covid”. He’s one of several friends that I’ve unfriended on facebook. He knows I don’t want to hear his crap.
I have zero patience for crap like that. A bunch of gullible idiots.
Patriot my ass.
And you have a point if this was a year ago but we’re still in declared state of emergency where the data isn’t supporting it and the different factions are using it to thier advantage.
It’s an informed decision made by the individual we all know what’s best for us. Give us a chance to do the right thing and be a community again instead of treating us like children.
There will always be derelicts who intentionally inflect people and we have laws for that if we can get the justice system working
A chance? Vaccines have been available for close to a year. Side effects are minimal. How much time do people need to “do the right thing“? Of course we’re going to treat people like children when they’re acting like children.
I agree and share the same sentiments and thoughts about the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers. How a pandemic like this got politicized so widespread…. well, we know how it happened but by such a diverse group of people that got radicalized to put themselves and others in threatening places. This should have been winding down, not the rest of us preparing for stronger and multiple strains.