According to America’s “most
closely watched forecast model,” the United States is projected to experience
almost 100,000 additional COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1st.
However, “experts” say that figure could be halved if everyone wore a mask in
public spaces. (I say we’d all be better off if the number of “experts”
was halved.)
Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences
at the University of Washington in Seattle, opined that “We can save 50,000
lives simply by wearing masks. That’s how important behaviors are.” A veritable
plethora of studies
beg to differ with Professor Mokdad and other pro mask extremists.
Seattle’s Dr. Gaby Sauza was vaccinated this past
winter yet still contracted the coronavirus after attending an outdoor wedding
in Vermont, even though everyone attending the soiree had to submit photos of
their vaccination cards. Other celebrants tested positive as well. She says
this proves even the vaccinated should be wary and take precautions and notes
that, “In retrospect, absolutely, I do wish I had worn a mask.”
Sauza credits the vaccine with keeping her infection
manageable, though she suffered through several days of body aches, fevers,
night sweats, fatigue, coughing and chest pain. Hmmm. Many unvaccinated
folks who get COVID are asymptomatic or barely aware something is amiss. And,
if everyone who attended the wedding and caught the dreaded virus was
vaccinated and spent most of the time outdoors, a better conclusion might be
that the vaccines aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
If we all have to be locked down, masked up, and socially
distanced so as to limit the deleterious affects of our otherwise risky
behavior, shouldn’t we be consistent about it? Should we not apply Leftists’
own cherished concept of “equity” to the overarching goal of lessening risk to
all and sundry?
If the unvaccinated pose a measurable threat to
others, surely drug addicts, smokers (except for pot smokers of course), the
obese, and those who drive cars pose similar or greater threats. Used
hypodermic needles and human feces now cover the ground of public spaces in San
Francisco, Los Angeles and other large American cities. Second or third-hand
smoke clings to the bodies and apparel of smokers, wherever they go. The obese block
our views when walking down a sidewalk or crossing a boulevard. They are a
potential danger on see-saws and elevators. And they are more likely to
contract—and therefore transmit—the coronavirus. As for the callous folks who
still insist on driving internal combustion vehicles, far more people die in
car accidents annually then from most other causes. Add to that the damage they
do to the planet by spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and…well, you
get the point. For that matter, gays and pangender people are more likely to
spread sexually transmitted diseases than boring old cis-gendered, straight,
males and females.
In “fairness,” should not government,
media, and business entities be allowed to tell druggies, smokers, the obese,
and automobile operators that they can’t hold a job, go to the movies, eat at a
restaurant, or live a normal life unless they, too, change their evil ways? What
about their deeply held beliefs, religious or otherwise? As Arnold Schwarzenegger
says, ”screw your freedom!”
Businesses and government
bodies should not be able to compel us to tell them our medical history
or our sexual preferences and proclivities. Or force us to change them. I
thought that point was settled.
Government
inquisitor: “Are you, perhaps, unvaccinated? Overweight? A driver? A promiscuous
pansexual?”
Citizen: “That’s none of your damn business!”
Government inquisitor: “You pay my salary, but I rule
you. That’s how it works, now. Never forget that, peon!”
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With apologies to Santana, this is what our ruling
class is telling us:
You've got to change your evil ways, baby
Or we’ll keep hatin' you
You've got to change, baby
And every word that we say is true
You've got to mask-up, stay home, and not hit the town
You've got us freakin’, you antivaxxers are bringin’ us down
This can't go on...
We say you've got to change, baby
Just stay at home, baby
If you go out, we might catch a cold
You hang around, baby
With rubes and rednecks and a who knows who
We’re gettin' tired of resistance and won’t mess around
Take the vaccine now or we will put you in the ground
This can't go on...
We say you've got to change!
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