Monday, September 13, 2021

Spreading Disease With Liberty

OF THE ROUGHLY EIGHTY MILLION unvaccinated Americans, we can and have learned much about them, who they are, their age, gender, politics, where they live,, their reasons for not geting vaccinated; all kinds of interesting and revealing demographic information. This type of informtaion gathering research is done at places like Harvard university, which apparently has nothing better to do, as well as many other universities, research institutions, government and private (NGOs). So we know a great deal about exactly who the unvaccinated are. As they say: "survey says!" The unvaccinated are heavily concentrated in the "red" states, and a vast majority of them are Christian conservatives. They are heavily registered Republican, which follows. Again, go ask the Harvard Department of Socioloy, or about a thousand other similar organizations. That's what they will tell you, whether or not you want to hear it. What they will not tell you is that the vaccines are a government plot to control your mind, or that they cause autism, or alter your DNA, or make you stupid and sterile. They will brush aside with derisive laughter all the cockeyed, hair brained false notions invented and employed by vaccination refusers, for lack of evidence, with, as Rush Limbaugh (RIP) used to say "one half of their brains tied behind their back". The vaccination refusers will of course simply dismiss the truth, the sound factual scientific research results as "hoax", just as they dismiss all facts as hoax whin it contradicts their ideology, which fact usually does. Institutions of higher learning are anathema to far right wingers, simply because they are intellectually credible. Of all the deplorable aspects of contemporary American conservatism; denial of climate change, refusal to accept election results, a preference fo unbridled corporate capitalism over compassionate, common sense economics and greater economic equality, and religious fanaticism and intolerance to name but a few of many, vaccination refusal might well be the most deplorable of the proverbial basket of deplorables, to borrow an infmaous election losing phrase from Hillary Clinton. Why? Because vaccination refusal has contributed mightily to the fact that before long three quarters of a million Americans will have died from Covid 19. Covid 19 and conservatism kill. Since such a substantial portion ot the conservative community is too ignorant, arrogante, of self delusional to voluntarily vaccinate, adn since reasion, persuasion and nagging have all failed, Biden is trying desperately to use government power Biden adn since reasion, persuasion and nagging have all failed, Biden is trying desperately to use government power to save tens of thousands of lives, too little, too late. This quite predictably intensifies the anger and resistance of the self absorbed liberty loving anti-govenment alternative reality mongering religious right, and here they come yet again, screeching their blather about state's rights, personal rights, and all the other spewing garbage with which we have become so nauseatingly familiar. They love liberty so much that they love the liberty to spread disease and death, to the eternal shame of the pathetic idiots.

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