A few weeks ago, in what was by far the most divisive speech I’ve ever heard from a sitting President, Joe Biden announced that he was imposing a vaccine mandate in a backhanded way through OSHA. Mere months after lamenting the Federal Government had no authority to mandate citizens take the jab, they decided to do it anyways. Or at least make life hell for those who resist. Constitutional limits are for suckers, you know.
“Our patience is wearing thin”, Biden scolded, as he justified forcing people to be injected with hastily-approved medications they don’t want by the need to “protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.” So it wasn’t supposed to be about protecting the dirty, unwashed, Trump-loving unvaccinated from themselves. There has never been much support in America for laws to protect people from themselves (other than on the far left.) It is (was?) a free country. And free people should be allowed to make their own choices and live with the consequences, good or bad. As long as they aren’t harming others, of course. And Biden made clear that his mandate was necessary to protect the (clean and virtuous) fully vaccinated from the disease-ridden, science-denying troglodytes. Biden made no effort to hide his disdain for the vaccine-hesitant and the damage they were doing to the obedient faithful. A more stark us-vs-them distinction would be hard to imagine.
Biden then went on to undermine his own case by declaring it to be a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and promised getting the vaccine would spare the infected from serious illness, hospitalization, and death. If that was true, why would the vaccinated need to be protected from the unvaccinated? Logical consistency is probably too much to ask of the dementia-riddled old jackass occupying the Oval Office. At least he got through the speech without crapping his pants (probably.)
So the basis for the mandate was weak from the start. New information since then has only further undermined the case for this unprecedented assault on medical autonomy. Tons of evidence has emerged that shows while the vaccines do improve outcomes, they are far from perfect, especially when it comes to slowing the spread of the disease. 76% of covid deaths in Vermont during the month of September were fully vaccinated. A Harvard study came out that found no correlation whatsoever between vaccination rates and the spread of covid on a county-level scale in the United States. Covid is surging in the Irish county of Waterford where 99.7% of the population is fully vaccinated. A recent study indicates that the efficacy of the vaccines starts to significantly wane after only 3 months. In fact, the J&J vaccine retained only a paltry 3% efficacy after 6 months. Yet recipients of the J&J jab are still considered “fully vaccinated.” Try telling me with a straight face that Big Pharma isn’t calling the shots here. I’ll wait. Then you have the Israeli study, the numerous horror stories about young (i.e. not vulnerable) people suffering horrific side effects, and so much more.
Finally you have the troll-like little crap weasel Anthony Fauci flat-out lying about how effective the vaccines are… And nobody but a de-platformed comedian is willing to call him out on it. Everybody else is afraid to question the Church of Fauci, because Big Tech will drop the hammer on anyone who dares question the administration’s narrative. Fast-forward to 48:20 in the video below for details:
Virtually all of the evidence indicates the vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of covid. That fact alone blows Biden’s justification for the mandate out of the water. The unvaccinated are no more likely to infect the vaccinated then the fellow-vaccinated. On top of that, the data suggests the protection the vaccines provide is, sadly, short-lived and inferior to natural immunity. So why on Earth would you want to jab covid survivors, other than to inflate the numbers and get closer to your arbitrarily chosen target? The short-term risk of serious side effects from the jab, while small, seems to be much greater than any previously approved vaccines. And any possible long-term side effects are still pure speculation. But Joe Biden ran on “defeating the virus.” Plus he (foolishly) blames the Delta surge on his sagging economy, poll numbers, and agenda. So he will push ahead with crushing the liberties of American citizens for a virus with a 99% survival rate.
I’ve made up my mind. This spring I told my significant other that I wouldn’t deprive myself of beneficial medication just because a moron said I should take it. After all, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I was actually signed up to get the J&J poke, which got halted 2 days before my appointment due to severe blood clotting issues. I chose to cancel altogether rather than take one of the other options. As it turns out, that J&J jab would be all but useless now, 7 months later. Today, as a practical matter, I’m inclined to wait a while and see how things shake out. However, as a philosophical matter, there is no choice. A moron chiding me is one thing. A petty tyrant threatening me is quite another. I will not be taking the jab any time soon. So many people have lost their jobs over this. Cops. Nurses. And many others. Good people. Many were being hailed as heroes just a year ago. Their stories are gut-wrenching. Hopefully I won’t become one of them. But everyone needs to have thresholds that can’t be crossed. Principles that are worth fighting for, even if it means personal hardship. Hills that are worth dying on. For me, this is one of those hills. I will not comply.
