Vaccinating

MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND Americans have died from covid 19; what was once thought unthinkable has eventuated. It now begins to seem possible that one millinon Americans will die from the virus. Only quite recently would a catastrophe of this magnitude have seemed possible. Fifty million Americans elegible for vaccination remain unvaccinated. Verified statistical research confirms that the unvaccinated are predominantly Christian conservatives, with education attainment levels generally lower than vaccinated people. Ergo, to get vaccinated is the smart thing to do. The virus has become a political issue. Blue counties vaccinate in high numbers, red counties do not. When President Biden warned that unvaccinated people were facing a dark, dangerous winter of death, a chorus of indignation erupted from right and left wing alike, snowflakes melting in the warmth of truth. How dare he be so honest. A Harvard epidemiologist, pedantically, pointed out that people become vaccinated by receiiving a jab in the arm, not a finger wagging in the face. No wonder he teaches at Harvard. He offers no alternative to shaming and coercion. Would he suggest monetary incentives, or free beer? Paraphrased, Goethe said: "It is not enough to cite error. One must offer solutions". What would Biden's snowflakish critics suggest, that we return to the policies of the Trump administration, who initially denied the reality of covid 19, told thousands of MAGA mobsters at unmasked rallies that the virus was a hoax, and, only when pressed, prescribed a treatment of bleach and hydroxycholorquine? The problem with Biden's dire warning is that the people who most need to hear it are those who are the least willing to hear it and the least capable of comprehending it. Donald Trump is on tour with Bill O'Reilly, a pair of frauds, two peas in a pod as we sometimes say, two sexual predators and moral reprobates who feign virtue and practice vice. When Trump told an audience that he himself had received a booster shot, he got booed. For once in his debauched life Trump did something good, and his cult followers turned on him. The irony is delicious, if pathetic.