Doing Your Duty By Vaccinating

 THE MORE PEOPLE who refuse to get the easily obtainable Covid 19 vaccine, the more the virus spreads, and the greater the chance that mutations will emerge as the virus replicates, and the greater the possibility of a mutation of Covid 19 spreading far and wide which is extremely contagious, deadly, and impervious to all currently available vaccines, putting not only the  un-vaccinated in even greater, but end danger, but  endangering the already vaccinated as well. People who refuse to take the now readily available vaccine are a danger to themselves, their community, the country, and indeed the human race. The abstruse but inventive phrase "vaccination traitor" has become apt. Even the most superficial demographic analysis reveals that vaccination rates are lowest in "red" states, and highest in "blue" states. It is America's conservative community which, generally, declines to get vaccinated,  unsurprising, since it is the conservative community which denies the truths of basic science,  preferring to substitute its own, false version of reality, simply to satisfy perceived. political and emotional needs. Often these needs are predicated on religious fanaticism. Generally, the people who support and love Donald Trump, who still believe that his election defeat was fraudulent, who insist that the insurrection of January sixth was a good idea and necessary, that climate change is a liberal  hoax, are the people who refuse to get vaccinated. Many of them claim that the vaccines are poison, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated, with no ill effect. There are some who claim that Covid 19 vaccinations are complete with computer chips, a means for the government to spy on them. then too, there is the vaccines cause autism crowd, a false notion which has been thoroughly discredited, but not to the satisfaction of those who deny scientific truth generally. Vaccination denial is as harmful as climate change denial, and it tends to manifest among the same people; the conservative religious community, among the people who support Donald Trump, even after his false claim that he actually won the 2020 election conspicuously has no merit, no basis in fact or reality. When one indulges in one fantasy, it becomes far easier to indulge in many more. As H.L. Mencken said: the fools would be humorous were thy not in such deadly earnest. Neither prisons nor mental health facilities are over crowded in America, but perhaps they merely house the wrong people.