Anti-mandate arguments just get more idiotic
Anti-mandate arguments just get more idiotic
James from North Carolina claims he's "going to choose" to get vaccinated. But government shouldn't make him.
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James for North Carolina called in to my SiriusXM program to say he “recently had Covid” and “it was rough” but that he “still fully agrees” that “you should not be forced to get the vaccination” even though he’s “going to choose to get the vaccination.”
James then went into some random story of someone who was vaccinated who supposedly died from Covid-19. (Of course, this has happened in extremely rare circumstances — such as the case in recent days of the immune-compromised Colin Powell, who suffered from multiple myeloma. But 99% of those who die from Covid-19 are unvaccinated.) And I had to cut through that distortion.
His bottom line was that if people don’t want to get vaccinated that is “their business” and about “their body” and yada yada.
I explained the you’re being vaccinated to protect other people — the public health at large. He admitted that he was vaccinated against polio, measles and other illnesses.
Why did he want to see this vaccine given some sort of exemption?
He claimed we don’t know enough about the Covid vaccines, which is just another bad talking point of the anti-vaxxers. We know more about these vaccines than we did about other vaccines before administering them. Emergency authorization for Covid vaccines required more rigorous testing than approval for past vaccines. And now Pfizer has full approval.
James then tried to claim the government is forcing people to get vaccinated — which is false. A mandate is in place to work in a specific job — a job requirement. You don’t have stay in that job if you choose to put your and others’ health at risk and stay unvaccinated.
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Anti-mandate arguments just get more idiotic
Oh my these freedumb people leave me weak. I may make the choice not to wear pants to the mall…. So much easier to try on jeans.
Thank you for educating James! Best closing comment ever.
BTW I try to avoid all the memes and sh*tposts but the anti vax Halloween costume is great…hospital gown, bi-pap, ivermectin and you can pay with go fund me or prayers!
Love your show!
Liz
Great closing line. I am so tired of our collective chains being yanked by the ignorant and the MEEEE crowd. This pandemic could have been controlled with the roll out of the vaccine but no. The University of YouTube "experts", libertarians like Rand Paul and opportunists like the nutty anti-vax community are busy undermining the nation's health. I find myself having to educate even educated family how long the SARs virus has been studied for vaccines as opposed to the polio and smallpox vaccinations we all got, and how advance scientific platforms for study are as opposed to then. Maybe the only answer is to keep educating and chipping away at the ignorance. As soon as I can, I will be getting the booster.