Vaccinating, Liberally

 WHETHER TO VACCINATE, like the decisions whether to mask up and social distance, surveys indicate, is largely determined by ideology and political party affiliation. This should not seem surprising. What isn't so determined these days? Conservative Republicans, by and large, are the refuseniks. Liberals, generally, comply with public health mandates. Forty percent of registered republican men have stated their intention to not get vaccinated against Covid 19. And so forth, across the board. Reasons give include the usual right wing tripe: defense of liberty and personal freedom against government mandates and tyranny, personal responsibility, that sort of tripe, with a healthy does of insane garbage thrown in having to do with "safely concerns"; vaccines cause autism, Bill Gates is implanting microchips in every dose to turn people into government controlled zombies. But now, to the point: To those self righteously indignant feigning outrage at the lack of bashfulness on this website in bashing conservatives, get a load of this: There are innumerable contexts in which contemporary american conservatism, and by extension its adherents, is idiotic and evil. the list is long, sufficiently long to fill the known universe with microchips, all microchips fully loaded with info bytes. But there is no single word which conveys evil sufficiently to describe the evil of people, liberal, moderate, or conservative, who on account of some false arrogant psychological need to express resentment of "government control" deliberately contribute, by their personal choices and  behavior, to the needless spread of an epidemic which has already killed nearly six hundred thousand Americans, and still is not finished killing. social distancing, mask wearing, and vaccinating, government or no government,  are all fundamental vital common sense measures during a deadly epidemic. To refuse to do these things is traitorous to one's country and fellow citizens. This is not a matter of personal liberty, but rather, social responsibility. the fact that refusing to comply is overwhelming a behavior within the conservative community is damning. Does the government, local, state, or federal, have the power to implement emergency measure in a time of national crisis? Hell yes. Should it? Damned straight it should, libertarian conservatism be damned. Are anti-government anti-vaccination people who object to this idiotic, traitorous, and in most cases conservative? Indisputably. The anti-government freedom fighting right winger doubtless considers himself virtuous, as does the fundamentalist Christian who refuses vaccination on the false and specious absurd reasoning that vaccines are manufactured with human embryos, which they are not. None of these people are virtuous, despite their illusions to the contrary. They are, in fact, quite the opposite.