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Originally Posted by Boomer
Thank you, golfing eagles, MD,
A couple of days ago, I tried to make the point about the collateral deaths that result from hospitals crammed with UNvaccinated Covid patients hogging beds, causing heart surgeries, and other needed surgeries, to be postponed because there is not enough room or staff to take care of them.
But (sigh) all I got back was that routine about the vaccinated carrying the virus -- and other diversionary tactics that are predictable. I must assume that they cannot imagine that they or someone they love could be among those shut out of care because our hospitals are being put under this completely unnecessary stress caused by the UNvaccinated.
In regard to the idea of a federal mask mandate -- I think that would be stupid because it would not work and would only add fuel to this fire. It is not going to happen.
I find the prohibiting of mask requirements handed down from state governments to be horrifying. It is damned creepy to use kids as pawns.
I do like knowing that private businesses are starting to play hardball. Delta is raising insurance premiums on their UNvaccinated employees by $200 a month.
Some of the hospitals in my hometown are requiring vaccinations. Some are not -- yet. I cannot imagine that all those nurses who are threatening to quit can be employed elsewhere -- unless they want to travel or move, and it would be stupid to uproot their lives for some "cause." Maybe peer-group pressure will work on them as many are signing up to get the vaccine now.
I heard yesterday that my hometown's main theater is going to require proof of vaccination. I have not read that for myself yet, but I sure hope it is true. I think that requirement will be good for theater. The arts have been suffering for a year and a half.
So anyway, leave the feds out of it, but let businesses make their own decisions about requiring the vaccine.
And tighten up the unemployment checks so that those who lose their jobs over refusing vaccination (unless they have a medical reason) are not able to get unemployment on some kind of technicality. They need not think they will have the luxury of lardassing around on my dime.
Oh well, enough of this. I did not intend to get started this morning.
Boomer
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Exactly. There seems to be a handful of posters, probably anti-vaxxers and probably none too bright, that seem to think that by reposting "the vaccinated can spread the disease just as much as the unvaccinated", they will make some point or another, whatever they think that is. It is a lame attempt to equate two groups that are in no way equivalent.
In summary:
THE VACCINATED AND UNVACCINATED ARE NOT THE SAME.
They have vastly different rates of contracting COVID, spreading COVID, getting hospitalized and dying. The sad part is that this should be a very easy, clear cut choice, but for some they are having trouble processing this information. Some may be following a political agenda, some may be afraid of the shot more than the disease, and some are just oblivious to what is happening. Like Judge Judy says---"You can't fix stupid"