The following report is by Amanda Marcotte, from Salon:
AUTHOR’S NOTE: See commentary at the end.
Everyone in the vaccinated world had that thing, the thing they missed most of all that they couldn’t wait to get back once the COVID-19 shot set them free. Performers wanted to get back on stage. Engaged couples had their wedding plans back on. Game enthusiasts couldn’t wait to get off Zoom and back to the tabletop. Some folks just fantasized about sitting in a bar or coffee shop again.
I really wanted to get back to my spin class. And for a couple of months, I did just that. Exercising at home for the past year was fine, but nothing beats a 45-minute spin class for leaving one red-faced and sopping wet with sweat. But it’s that “sopping wet” part that became a problem this week when the gym sent out a memo bringing back their indoor mask mandate. This isn’t a 5-minute jaunt in a grocery store with a mask. Exercising with a sweat-soaked mask is like being waterboarded. So I canceled my class and sent a polite but angry note to my gym. Philadelphia’s new regulations allow businesses to choose between mask and vaccine mandates, and they chose poorly, penalizing those who did the right thing to coddle those who refuse. Masking the already vaccinated to protect the unvaccinated helps a little, but is a little like trying to cover someone in a rainstorm by holding an index card over their head.
But ultimately, I’m not even that mad at the gym. No, who I am mad at is the willfully unvaccinated, people who, out of irrationality and often raw Republican tribalism, got us into this mess in the first place. I am incandescent with rage that millions of Americans are putting it on the rest of us to protect them from COVID-19, just so they can avoid a simple, free shot that is available at every pharmacy.
Republicans, always ready to destroy lives for some perceived political gain, aren’t even hiding anymore that they think being pro-COVID is good politics. As CNN reports, there’s “a GOP-wide effort to use the fears and frustrations of Americans worried about another round of school closures and lockdowns as cudgels against their Democratic opponents.”
But, of course, the return of restrictions is the direct result of Republican efforts to dissuade Americans from getting vaccinated and keep those COVID-19 case rates high. It’s important to remember that this is still a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Case rates are rising rapidly among the unvaccinated, who tend to reject other prevention measures along with vaccines. There are also breakthrough infections, though they affect fewer than one-third of 1% of the vaccinated.
One of the primary arguments being rolled out by conservative media is that refusing vaccination is about “freedom” and “personal choice.” But that is a lie. We know it’s a lie because Republicans are generally fine with all other vaccine mandates. But most importantly, by refusing to do the right thing, the unvaccinated are stripping freedom and choice from every other American who got vaccinated. We stand by helplessly watching restrictions pile back on and our freedoms dissipate, all to protect those who won’t protect themselves. Polling shows that most Americans support vaccine requirements and no wonder — we want our freedom back.
In some corners of social media, it continues to be popular to scoff at those who want their freedoms back, snarling “it won’t kill you to wear a mask in the store.” But the freedoms the vaccinated are sacrificing so that others can selfishly refuse the shot are far greater than that. It’s not just my loss of a beloved gym class. The stories of people’s losses are stacking up: A musician who was eager to get back to work is now watching his concert dates get canceled. Folks missing weddings of friends and family because the couple wasn’t brave enough to disinvite the unvaccinated. And, perhaps worst of all, the people who are giving up their basic right to be healthy, to free up medical resources for people who turned their nose up at basic preventative care.
In Texas, Republican leadership and right-wing ideology has led to low vaccination rates and subsequently to hospitals overflowing with COVID-19 patients. Gov. Greg Abbott, being a Republican, refuses to do anything to mitigate the spread of the disease. So instead, he’s leaning on hospitals to deprive other people of necessary medical care, such as delaying surgeries, to keep hospital resources free to tend to the waves of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. However angry I am at losing my gym class (also important for physical health, I’ll point out), it likely pales in comparison to the rage of someone who has to put off surgery to fix a debilitating but not fatal condition, all because some Fox News junkie thought a quick jab in the arm takes away his “freedom”. Not being able to walk because your knee surgery keeps getting delayed is the far greater loss of freedom.
Increasingly, people who are being denied necessary medical care to free up resources for unvaccinated COVID-19 patients are venting on social media:
The situation gets even direr when considering the threats to children, who can’t get the shot until they turn 12. Most children who get COVID-19 have a mild case of it, but because of the current surge of cases, the number of marginal cases where kids get really sick is rising. Children’s hospitals are being swamped, creating the same resource allocation problem that is making it harder for kids with other health care issues to get the quality of care they need. And yes, it is the unvaccinated who are creating the problem, both by driving up numbers generally and by infecting children they have close contact with.
But even kids who remain healthy are watching their childhoods slip away because of this unnecessarily prolonged pandemic. There’s an ongoing political fight between people who want masks in schools to protect kids and Republicans who, in a true fit of irrationality, think it’s somehow “freedom” to let COVID-19 run rampant is schools. Kids are the victims of this ugly debate. Rather than just be free to enjoy their childhoods, they are being used as political pawns by right-wingers and facing real threats of losing classroom time and extracurricular activities because Republicans would rather have a virus roam free than let children have their childhoods.
It is true that not all of the unvaccinated are right-wing ideologues. Many heard some conspiracy theories about the vaccines and it’s making them reluctant. (That said, since the right is pumping out those conspiracy theories, they still can be blamed ultimately for this.) Others are people who are busy and haven’t made the time to get the shot. Of course, there should be every effort to educate people and make the shot easier to get for them.
But such measures must be coupled with mandates.
Mandates may feel unpleasant, but they help people reorganize their priorities so that they put getting necessary medical care over conspiracy theories and busy schedules. Sometimes education alone isn’t enough to get people over the hump. That’s why we have seatbelt laws and indoor smoking bans. The people who stand to benefit from mandates are often the ones who are most resistant. They are, after all, exponentially more likely to die than those who voluntarily got the shot. And even if one believes they have a “right” to take that risk for themselves, they certainly have no right to keep exposing others, especially children.
Vaccine mandates are coming. New York City and Los Angeles are embracing vaccine mandates to enter some public places, and the Biden administration is mandating vaccinations for military and federal employees. But watching the case rate go up — and freedoms for the already-vaccinated continue to disappear — it’s clear that the mandates aren’t coming fast and hard enough.
President Joe Biden must immediately mandate vaccinations for anyone getting on an airplane or a train. And while Republican leaders will resist, Democrats who control state and local governments must follow in the footsteps of New York City and make vaccine requirements for public places widespread. Businesses and schools should immediately require vaccines for employees and students over the age of 12. Ordinary people can draw the line with friends and family, rejecting them from all social occasions until they get the jab.
Yes, anti-vaxxers will whine and complain about “freedom.” But freedom is what vaccine mandates are about. Vaccine mandates can return freedom to those of us who are sick of canceling plans, sick of losing work, and sick of having to wear masks everywhere we go, even though we’re vaccinated.
It’s conservatives who are always rolling out that treacly slogan that “freedom isn’t free.” Well, time to prove that adage. We need our freedom back. Luckily, the cost this time is low: a small prick in the arm that will save a life, probably your own. Not exactly storming the beaches at Normandy, sacrifice-wise. It’s time to stop giving up our freedom to coddle people who don’t even know what that word really means and start mandating the shots in every way we can.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The WinePress from day one has been politically neutral, and always will be; and yet I, our contributors, and our regular readers will NOT being getting juiced up with this DEATH SHOT. Period. We are not “Right-wingers,” we’re just doers of truth.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:23
That being said, this is the typical cliché propaganda that left-leaning and progressive media spew out: picking the easy, low-hanging fruit that just feeds into the political divide – while claiming that “Covid has unfortunately been politicized when it shouldn’t be.” This is the type of rhetoric conservative-patriot media does all the time too, when they rail on the stupidity of democrats and radical progressives. It’s how people like intellectual geeks such as Ben Shapiro got famous: because he goes after silly liberals and “boldly” declares that there are two genders on a college campus, which makes the “unlearned” conservative want to be just like him. But I digress.
Ben Shapiro’s Sister Abby Suffers Miscarriage After Taking A Covid Vaccine
To go after Fox News demonstrates this low-hanging fruit, because The WinePress has reported a few instances where Fox News has been pushing the vaccine, and even have their own vaccine passport.
Sean Hannity Urges Viewers To Get Vaccinated. Fox Implements Their Own Version Of A Passport
Fox News Defends Fauci And Says He’s A Good Doctor. Other Republicans Urge Vaccination
Furthermore, many Republican politicians are changing their tune right now and are betraying their supporters who were once using the anti-vaxx, anti-mask, anti-lockdown, etc., spiel Ms. Marcotte is writing about. So again, she is just being very disingenuous with the facts, obviously.
More Republican Politicians Betray Their Supporters Over Covid
‘Sellout!’ Floridians And “Patriots” Are Angry After Gov. DeSantis Urges Residents To Get Vaxxed
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Urges Arkansans To Get Vaccinated Crediting Trump For Saving Lives
Alabama Governor Angerly Blames Unvaccinated Residents For Having The Lowest Vaccine Rates
But these types of reports (as I have seen similar in recent weeks) seem to be the new angle the media and politicians are employing: finally admitting the lockdowns and masking is very cumbersome, but YOU are the problem for making them come back. It’s so childish when you hear it. These people are just slaves of their own oppression.
[31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [33] They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? [34] Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. [35] And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. [36] If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.John 8:31-36
She and all the rest are in bondage, not me. Both right, left, and any in-between are slaves of their sin for choosing to reject the truth. As I Christian, I don’t see right versus left – even though we talk about it in that sense because that’s the world setup – but since I have been called out and separated from the world, and given Christ’s Holy Spirit of Truth, I only see the two possible answers: evil and error, or truth and righteousness (John 3:18-21; 1 John 4:1-6).
But continuing, does it not ever cease to amaze that it is always the bloated pufferfishes of this world that rail about health and safety, per the profane man in his Twitter post? Moreover, they just believe everything they are told: this laughable statistic that over 99% of the unvaccinated are dying and being hospitalized. Give me a break.
The WinePress has been reporting that the rise of hospitalizations are attributed to the fully vaccinated. And while the media spins and tries to make it sound like the “deadly” Delta and Lambda variants are the cause, WinePress readers know it is because the “vaccines” are designed to make people sick!
Media Warns That ‘Deadly Lambda’ Variant Could Be Neutralizing Vaccines
DEATHSHOT: Israel Reports Over 65% Seriously Ill Covid Patients Are Fully Vaccinated
Furthermore, as I have noted plenty of times, not a soul in the media or government (right or left) will discuss the fact that the tens of thousands are dying from these jabs, with hundreds of thousands getting all kinds of reactions in just America alone! VAERS is now reporting over 12,700 people DEAD in America: and those are the numbers were are being allowed to see!
But none of these facts matter: the rest of the media will continue to dog-pile on this and ramp up the pressure to get vaccinated. And yes, the lockdowns and heavy mandates will continue and increase.
But as for me, and I encourage you to do the same, is to FIGHT and RESIST this tyranny. I am a calm and mannered-man who wants to live peaceably with all people: but when you try to harm me and take away MY GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS, I will NOT back down to you, and I WILL be praying that the LORD FIGHTS YOU! And if you choose not to repent, then may the Lord consume you!
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1
[1] A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. [2] Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. [3] Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. [4] Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. [5] Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. [6] Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. [7] For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. [8] Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.Psalms 35:1-8
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Sorry, I read 1984 and the KJV Bible. Lies don’t work on me, I have the Holy Spirit!
.\\itch – Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
That women is a devil possessed lunatic that can’t see the forest for the trees. Correct me if I am wrong but hasn’t the government come out at one point or another and stated that masks and the vaccine do nothing to stop transmission of the virus? That being the case there is no point in demonizing the un-vaccinated as them getting the jab will not improve the current situation regardless. The ONLY reason this madness continues is because the un-vaccinated are the current scapegoat the media has prepared for these brainless zombies to gnash upon because they are more likely to be guided to a conclusion even if it is incorrect than to think for themselves given all the information to the contrary. The media is taking advantage of the outright laziness of the populace at large, counting on the strength of the general cognitive dissonance of most to further their lies. Then they let a talking head like that devil woman run off at the mouth and write whatever she wants based on the current party line furthering the problem even more. The propaganda at this point is so evil that it would make Goebbels blush.
I knew this day will come.
I regularly read thecovidblog.com in addition to this newsletter and a few others, and it is teeming with monthly horror stories of the suffering and death that comes upon the ones who took the jabs this past year. As far as I know, this is a secular publication, but every horror story and report of death can be backed up through other sources like newspaper articles and obituaries, screen shots of the victim’s social media tweets, etc. I share these stories on social media but rarely get any feedback or response. The one thing that seems to be a constant is that no one is disputing the fact that this phantom “virus” has at least a 98% recovery rate , without the vaccine, in most healthy people under age 65. These jabs offer nothing but unnecessary suffering where death is a welcome relief. Are people that afraid of getting what amounts to nothing but a bad case of the flu? Additionally, since when did the practice of administering vaccines like candy at Halloween come into vogue? A booster shot, however useless, was something given to people years after the original jab…..not months. There also used to be vaccines touted as having life-long effectiveness against diseases much worse than the common cold. All this fear-mongering and lying media hype is the desperation of Rome’s medical inquisition who see their most effective, lucrative, and sneaky way of poisoning all us heretics threatened by actual doctors (those left who have not mysteriously died while in good health) who do their research on all the garbage that is killing us. Unfortunately that hype is working all too well. The Covid cure is a massive hurling of all television sets in this country.