[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Please don't take it personally, Topspinmo. It's not like my home state of Ohio is taking any prizes.

Mayo Clinic has a site that tracks percentages of vaccinations by state and age group. Older people have the highest percentages of being vaccinated -- and although political bent possibly applies somewhat to those who are younger, I don't think it does for most older people.

I certainly understand that there are those who won't get the vaccine due to health issues that make risk possibly outweigh benefit if they take the shot. In fact, I know one such person. She is being very careful. She has to be.

But what I am so tired of is hearing the litany of excuses that have been programmed into the anti-vaxxers -- who have been convinced that they are oh so much smarter than the rest of us, so in the know.

Then we have the completely over-the-edge types who think we will be magnetized if we get the vaccine. In spite of the mock-ability factor of those paranoid theories, it is actually, truly awful to realize that there are those who really believe that kind of thing.

I have now reached the point where I think of the denial types as being freeloaders -- plain and simple -- riding on the responsibility taken by the rest of us -- freeloading.

Boomer

There a lot more people in Missouri that lives far away from any free clinics or hospitals. Especially south central Missouri.