Liberating The Self, Killing the Community

 MOE THAN SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND Americans have died from Covid 19, with many more to follow.  More than four hundred thousand of them are senor citizens. At this point, indeed well before this point,all Covid 19 deaths are caused by what can be tactfully termed "vaccination hesitancy", and more appropriately called "vaccination lunacy". Most insane of all is that all across the land of liberty, staff members at hospitals, assisted living facilities, and senior centers are not vaccinated, by right of refusal, in the land of personal freedom and social irresponsibility. Those who refuse are a great danger to themselves and to everyone else not vaccinated. Those who refuse are doubtless well aware that more than half the American population has been fully vaccinated, that vanishingly few recipients of the shots have experienced anything other than minor side effects, and that therefore the vaccination is perfectly safe. They know all this, and yet choose, for fabricated nonsensical selfish reasons, they prefer to endanger the lives of others and themselves. They know no shame, and yet are covered with it. Surveys indisputably verify that vaccination refusal is overwhelmingly a behavior practiced by white conservative Christians, the same community which has always supported and still does support Donald Trump, even after his attempted overthrow of the U.S. government, the same community which denies the severity of the pandemic, often refuses to maintain social distancing or wear face masks in public, and, equally crazy, denies the very existence of what the Department of Defense has long labeled the greatest single threat to American national security, climate change. Evangelical Christians of the Trump kind never fail to find reasons to betray their country, and all humanity, by embracing false beliefs, refusing to abandon those beliefs, even when, especially when confronted with irrefutable proof of their absurdity. They refuse vaccinations because the lord will protect them, but they carry automatic weapons because the lord's protection is suspect. Those who refuse Covid 19 vaccination by using "personal freedom and responsibility" as an excuse conveniently ignore the moral reality that personal freedom ends where responsibility for the health and safety of others begins. The evangelical vaccination refusers are quick to condemn other to eternal damnation in hell for a side variety of alleged offenses, all in the service of their lunatic fantasies, but jeopardizing the health and well being of the entire community in the name of "liberty" might be well advised to concern themselves less with the personal salvation of others, and more time considering their own moral responsibilities, and to talk about eternal damnation only when gazing deeply into a mirror.