This kneejerk garbage of people refusing to get vaccinated in hard-hit southern Oregon is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
This area of Oregon is far right in political beliefs and thinks Governor Kate Brown is the devil incarnate. So many of these people are outright idiots, as racist and as sexist as any area of the United States and with their steady diet of far right media, they cannot be reasoned with. I work with these people, and I will tell you that when the new mandates come down in October where ALL school personnel will have to have proof of vaccination (with exceptions for religious reasons and health reasons), all hell will break loose. In my school district there is already a major shortage of job applicants; many employees who are unvaccinated are going to refuse to get the shots and are threatening to quit.
I say insurance companies should refuse to insure any of these holdouts. I say all employers refuse to hire them. These people yak constantly about their freedom, but their rights end where mine begins.
These idiots embarrassed Medford and the state of Oregon when they protested in front of Asante Regional Hospital a couple of days ago. Supposedly a thousand or more were there, with more dipshits driving by honking in support. Very few of the protesters were medical personnel; few are that damned stupid as to support antivaccination ideas. Meanwhile, inside the hospital, a number of people were dying of COVID in the ICU.
A video of this insanity:
Here is what it is like in the ICU at Asante in Medford:
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