In America, thousands of people are about to lose their jobs for refusing to take a vaccine mandated by the government.
I’ll repeat the most important part of that statement again.
In America...
Yeah. I think that matters. America was purposely founded on governing principles designed to set it apart from the normal institutions of its time. In spirit, I think it should still live up to that creed. I don’t care if people mischaracterize that belief as jingoism or any other insult based on actually having pride in one’s country. I believe it.
When it comes to mandates, one of the favorite arguments of the left is to paint anyone against them as a crybaby. “Oh, poor you, the government is requiring you to get a SCARY shot,” they jeer. This is one of the most juvenile and misguided representations of a stance I’ve ever seen. And I will get back to that. But first, I’m going to willingly travel down a rabbit trail to set up a few things.
When two sides disagree on the base premise of something, they will never, EVER see eye to eye on any argument related in any way to that first disagreed upon stance.
For example, the left says we are in the middle of the worst pandemic the world has ever seen and that nearly a million people have died from it in America. I don’t agree with these two statements. I agree with certain elements of the statements in spirit and to certain degrees, but as written, I do not consider them valid. Unfortunately, due to this disagreement, I can’t ever truly discuss them with someone who does find them valid, because everywhere our discussion will take us will ultimately circle back around to our core disagreement.
It’s just like the abortion argument. Pro-choice people say life does not begin at conception. Pro-life people say it does. Every argument after that initial disagreement is a total waste of breath. You’ll never agree, because you disagree on the validity of the core premise.
So when people say Covid is the worst pandemic in the history of the world, I balk. I certainly believe a large number of people have died from Covid, but I also believe many, many more have died of underlying health issues that were exacerbated by Covid. In other words, Covid wasn’t the cause, it was one factor piled on top of many. But for whatever reason, nobody talks about imminent deaths when it comes to Covid. That’s a topic for another article.
So yes, I disagree with your number and I disagree with your notion that the world is in the worst pandemic in history. But it’s important to note that those aren’t even the points I’m concerned about when it comes to the absurdity of Joe Biden’s imminent January 4th vaccine mandate.
Regardless of the true seriousness of Covid or the real number of deaths it has led to, neither subject influences my decision on the current mandate in any way. Instead, I disagree with this particular mandate wholeheartedly for only one reason: because of how mind bogglingly stupid it is as written.
You see, even if we were in the worst pandemic in the history of the world, this particular mandate makes no sense, because it in no way addresses the issue which makes Covid such an unsolvable issue in light of the way the media has portrayed it.
As written, the mandate states that anyone who works at a company with over 100 people will need to be vaccinated by January 4th. If they aren’t, they will need to submit to weekly tests, potentially at their own expense, and wear masks at work indefinitely. The testing and mask caveat will likely apply even to those given religious or medical exemptions to the vaccine itself.
And again, by itself, that all might make sense if the pandemic is as serious as they say (it’s not)…until you hear what happens to the people who are vaccinated.
If you are vaccinated? No testing, no masks, no job loss, no added expense, no nothing. Simply fall in line and take the vaccine regardless of your beliefs, and life remains as is. Refuse it, and the government will implement every roadblock possible to prevent you from living a happy, normal life.
But here’s the issue with the mandate’s logic: Israel and many other highly vaccinated places have already demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the vaccine doesn’t prevent the contraction or transmission of the virus. At best, it limits symptoms, but even that benefit seems highly dependent on the individual, and many people still remain completely symptomless after testing positive for Covid, even if they are unvaccinated.
Do you see the problem?
If I don’t want the vaccine, I have to test weekly and wear a mask indefinitely, presumably because the government thinks I’m such a danger to other people who might catch Covid from me. The person who is vaccinated, however, doesn’t have to take any additional precautions, even though they are just as able to spread Covid to anyone they meet.
It’s almost like the government is coming right out and saying, “We know the vaccine doesn’t provide a whole lot of benefits by itself, so we are going to engineer some through forced mandates so that people will be more likely to see them.”
This is the same type of illogical double standard that has dominated the Covid era from the beginning.
It would be a totally different thing if a quarter of the population is getting horribly sick from this disease. It’s a different thing if the vaccine you are attempting to mandate outright crushes the disease in the manner the Smallpox, Polio, and Measles vaccines crushed those diseases. But to drastically alter a person’s life to the point of forcing them out of work over a disease that most people experience as a minor cold simply because they are healthy and don’t want to take a vaccine that doesn’t prevent contraction or transmission anyways?
What on earth are we doing?
All right. Let’s end that rabbit trail. Let’s get back to the crybaby argument. That’s where we started and is, in fact, the more important point.
Even if I did agree that the disease was a bad as they say it is and the vaccine was as effective as they say it is, the American people CANNOT, under any circumstance, allow the government to start mandating personal medical choices WHILE the vast majority of people are still totally healthy.
Not because I’m a crybaby, not because I’m afraid of needles, not because I’m selfish and won’t think about the 90 year old grannies who are suffering.
No. The reason you can’t allow mandates, is because of the precedent it sets.
Seriously people, this shouldn’t be that hard to understand: I’m not worried about THIS vaccine.
I’m not crying about a needle or some mild side effects. I’m not mad that someone is “making me do something”. In fact, I’m not worried about THIS vaccine at all.
So what am I worried about? Why all the fuss? Why start the webisite?
You’re not going to believe this, but I’m actually worried about the 10th vaccine down the road in 140 years that’s could be forced on my great grandchildren using some nonsensical precedent set by the leftist goons of today. That might sound crazy, but yes, I do think about how what we happens today will affect the future of America, and it weighs on me.
People need to understand, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, and neither are the vast majority of people against these mandates. I don’t think there are tracking devices in your vaccine or 5G cancer agents or alien brainwashing serums. I certainly don’t think 109 year old Joe Biden is some evil mastermind brilliantly pulling the strings of some diabolical scheme.
But I do think that someday, somewhere down the line, some evil group could potentially seize power and attempt something crazy through these very same types of mandates, and when they do, they are going to use the precedents we set right now to do so.
Don’t believe me? Check out the 1906 Jacobson vs Massachusetts case being used to make all kinds of decisions about vaccine mandates today. Using 120 year old cases to make current decisions is nonsense. That’s not a founding document. It’s not a set of ordinances that was voted and agreed upon. It’s one court’s decision on one specific case, from a time period when the horse and buggy was the fancy method of transportation. Do you think there is anything happening in 2021 they couldn’t have predicted would be happening in 1906? I’m guessing the same will be true in 2140.
So stop painting people who are against these sweeping mandates as simpletons who don’t understand science. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that the very people who claim to be the experts on science don’t understand science.
While I do think they are largely ineffective at their stated causes and/or absolutely politically motivated, I honestly don’t care about this vaccine or this mandate specifically. I’m fighting against the precedent about to be set by one of the most pervasive, poorly thought out, logically indefensible government overreaches of all time.
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