The president is planning to announce mandatory vaccinations for federal employees today (presumably with health and religious exemptions) in order to help stop the spike in COVID-19 cases. I hope all state, local, and private employers follow suit. Furthermore, let's have insurance companies spike up rates for those who refuse the vaccine.
There is no goddamned excuse for the vast majority of people not to be vaccinated. People are dying, people are straining medical resources because of their stupidity.
The big problem here is we have three-and-a-half generations in this county who have NEVER lived through a real plague until now. AIDS doesn't really count because it was never that widespread, it targeted specific groups, and it is easily preventable albeit has no cure. These people have no idea how bad certain diseases can get or would get if it weren't for vaccines. Anybody under 60 years of age has no clue what it is like. I am thinking of polio specifically. I can remember as a little girl how scary it was for millions, especially children, and especially in the southern states, every summer. They were afraid to go outside for fear of getting polio. If they did, the vast majority of children and adults made it, but for a significant minority, it was disability, death, or perhaps worst of all, the iron lung (there weren't respirators then as now). Thanks to the March of Dimes, promoted by FDR (hence his face on the US dime), the Salk and Sabin vaccines were developed, and polio today is all but wiped out from the face of the earth.
I remember getting the Sabin vaccine, the sugar cube, when I was in first grade. Everybody got it. There weren't crackpots going around yapping about their "freedom." Everybody, young and old, understood it was a citizen's responsibility not to make others sick.
This is lost on too many of the current generations. It's me, me, me, me, me.
Biden's speech:
As always, it is political posturing with Repubicans:
RNC says it plans to sue the Biden administration after the president issued two sweeping executive orders that will require Covid vaccines for as many as 100M Americans. https://t.co/W22McUOTPn
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 10, 2021
They will lose, but that isn't the point. I don't want these unvaccinated people in my workplace, in the schools, on trains and airplanes, anywhere in public. Enough is enough with this "freedom" bullshit.
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