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What the flap is wrong with some people? We are in the middle of a national emergency – hell, an INTERNATIONAL emergency – and some people simply will not adapt. I’m talking about all those who have a problem with mask mandates, as well as the anti-vaxxers.<\/p>\n
People who refuse to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus are either ignorant, selfish, stupid or cowardly – and probably some combination of the four. One thing all of them are, regardless of their excuses, is unpatriotic. Whatever happened to taking one for the team? A society comprises individuals, and individual rights are important; however, your rights end where your neighbor’s nose begins. A society works – and can protect individual rights – only when everybody follows certain rules.<\/p>\n
When anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers hide behind \u201cmy body my choice,\u201d they are being self-centered in the extreme. Refusing to wear a mask and avoiding vaccination are not matters of individual rights or risk – all those who are unvaccinated without good reason and go about unprotected pose threats to all those around them. The infection and death rates in the USA would be a lot lower, and ICUs would not be crammed to the gills, if more of us had at least a lick of sense.<\/p>\n
Not long after COVID-19 was recognized as a deadly pandemic, \u201cliberation\u201d groups began protesting lockdowns. They claimed that shelter-in-place orders violated their civil rights. Clearly they did not understand the difference between inconvenience and oppression. Individual freedom does not mean doing anything you want, and it does not give you the right to put other people\u2019s lives in peril just because you are a crybaby or don\u2019t like following orders. Just as the better part of valor is discretion, so the better part of freedom is responsibility for one\u2019s actions. Dying stupidly because you didn\u2019t take reasonable precautions to protect against a dangerous disease – especially if you infected others – is a far cry from dying heroically on some battlefield.<\/p>\n
During the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, a group called the Anti-Mask League arose in San Francisco. They managed to get a city ordnance requiring mask-wearing in public rescinded. The result? Flu cases in the city nearly doubled over the next month, and flu deaths spiked. Kudos to Arnold Schwarzenegger for roasting anti-maskers with \u201cNo, screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligation and responsibilities.<\/a>\u201d Way to go, Governator. Those who are unwilling to accept responsibility do not deserve freedom.<\/p>\n If we used our heads and listened to doctors and scientists, we wouldn\u2019t need mask mandates, because everybody would be taking the proper precautions. How can anybody think that an ignoramus with a big mouth and a half-assed blog is more trustworthy than somebody who has had years of education and decades of experience in the medical field? People who actually care about their family, friends, co-workers, drinking buddies, indeed, all of humanity get the \u201cjab,\u201d practice social distancing, and wear masks even if they are fully vaccinated. If we truly want this pandemic to end as soon as possible, we all need to do our part.<\/p>\n Consider seat belts. People have perished in wrecks even while wearing them; however, you are much more likely to survive an accident if you have yours on. Just ask any police officer, EMT or emergency room doctor. Keep in mind that over 99% of those who have died from COVID-19 have been unvaccinated.<\/p>\n This pandemic is not over, and we may – no, will<\/i> – have to deal with more variants. We will almost certainly need to get more shots. (As for those evil Bill Gates microchips, even the smallest chip is far too large to fit through a vaccination needle!) We may have to endure another round or two of lockdown. But we need to think of others. There is no reason to not wear a mask in public, and unless you have some medical condition that precludes vaccination there is no reason to not get inoculated. The best weapon to use against the coronavirus is common sense – which, unfortunately, is anything but common.<\/p>\n Bored Panda burns \u201ccovidiots\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What the flap is wrong with some people? We are in the middle of a national emergency – hell, an INTERNATIONAL emergency – and some people simply will not adapt. I’m talking about all those who have a problem with mask mandates, as well as the anti-vaxxers. People who refuse to be vaccinated against the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}