Just get vaccinated already!
So-called vax lotteries haven’t worked, and the NFL’s edict that unvaccinated players that cause teams to miss games will forfeit games due to a COVID-19 outbreak may not work, either.
Even Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, to her credit put the blame for the resurgence of the pandemic clearly where it belongs: squarely on the millions of stubborn --- and in incredibly foolish, selfish and clueless ---Americans who are using their political beliefs as an excuse not to get vaccinated despite the fact that getting vaccinated is clearly NOT a political issue.
“I want folks to get vaccinated. That’s the cure. That prevents everything,” Ivey said. “Why would we want to mess around with just temporary stuff?” she said. “We don’t need to encourage people to just go halfway with curing this disease. Let’s get it done. And we know what it takes to get it done.”
Ivey said what those who have gotten the vaccine have known for months: the shots are “safe” and “effective,” she said, adding: “The data proves that it works. [It] doesn’t cost you anything. It saves lives.”
Then, reflecting the frustration that the millions of people who did their duty and got vaccinated --- including millions who spent hours looking for shots when they were scarce in the late winter and spring, Ivey had a clear message for the unvaccinated:
Just get the shot!
“Folks (are) supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down,” she said.
As a result, many states are going backward, renewing mask mandates, and so are many cities and towns in Massachusetts, which boasts one of the best vaccination rates in the nation with more than 4.3 million vaccinated, a rate of better than 70 percent.
But realistically, the unvaccinated are doing far more than being selfish: they are hurting everyone else, they’re moving the country backward to the horrible days of last winter --- and they’re risking setting back the economy --- and God forbid it --- precipitating another lockdown, which will be even more destructive than the first one --- and will harm the mental health of millions of Americans beyond belief.
Sadly, many school districts are set to reimpose mask mandates on students, but despite that, far too many parents are foolishly refusing to get their children 12 and older vaccinated --- a stance that only exacerbates the situation.
The bottom line is that we as a nation are more divided than ever, when --- due to the speed at which the vaccine was made available to us --- we should be leading the world in getting rid of the pandemic.
Now, thanks to this “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” we’re doomed to live the next several years with this dastardly pandemic --- and you know who to blame:
The selfishly unvaccinated!
Maybe it’s time to deny any insurance payments for COVID-19 expenses to anyone who refuses to get vaccinated except for sound medical reasons.
Something must be done to turn the tide --- and the answer clearly isn’t vaccine lotteries. They haven’t been working.
Mandates are long overdue; after all, students have no choice but to get a whole variety of vaccines in order to attend public school, so why not for this vaccine?
We have to have the toughness to impose vaccine mandates; otherwise, the more than 633,000 death toll in the United States from the pandemic --- which already surpassed the number of people who died in the United States from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic --- will continue to rise until it breaks 1 million or more.
So get vaccinated now, before it’s too late!
Get the shot!
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