Suffering Fools

For the life of me I cannot understand why there are millions of people who simply do not understand or believe the statistics concerning the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines.  One must totally reject any truth provided by science to continue to deny the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing horrible disease and death.  How does a person simply reject facts that are undeniable?  People do that because they are just plain STUPID.

There is no other rational explanation.

 

One would think that the FACT that 99% of those who are getting infected are unvaccinated would have some sort of impact on those who continue to refuse to get the shot.  It doesn't--because they are STUPID.  I know all this crap about 'freedom of choice' and 'worry about authorities' seems to be the rationale these people parrot from social media disinformation, and exhortation from the dubious authorities at Fox News and other right wing media outlets, but at the end of the day it is simply because they are STUPID.

 

Perhaps the most egregious play here is by the Republican Party as a whole.  They have made vaccine

protection a political issue when it is simply a public health issue.  This Delta variant pandemic of the unvaccinated is primarily present in "red' states.  Anyone have an explanation for that?  And where is the former President who should be encouraging all his followers to get a shot, otherwise he could be accused of wishing them dead, but of course that is congruent with his disregard for over 600,000 dead so far.  One would think that rational human beings would realize at some point that their cult leader is not giving them any guidance on how to avoid the virus, when in fact he is doing all he can to create a result of increased disease that he can somehow blame on Biden.  It is all so sick. 

 

Finally with the death toll rising, hospital admissions spiking and the number of new cases soaring out of control among the unvaccinated, even the STUPID people are rushing to roll up their sleeves.  Sadly, for many of them it is too late...and it is too late for all the rest of us too.  It is we who must suffer overloaded hospitals, overwhelmed health workers and a virus free to seek out other juicy victims who will help to evolve new and deadlier variants.

 

And now we see all the Republican naysayers belatedly finding 'religion' and recommending vaccination.  However, there are still holdouts like Ron DeSantis in Florida or Christie Noem in South Dakota who throw bouquets at themselves for standing up for 'personal freedom' by rejecting the science of masking as a first line of defense in stopping the infections.  Yeah, you guessed it, they are STUPID (as well as being crassly ,self-aggrandizingly, politically selfish).

 

I suppose we will stumble across the finish line at some point and reach 'herd immunity' in spite of all the STUPIDITY, but what a senseless burden of tragedy for families, and waste of human life when it is all so unnecessary.  We are all 'suffering fools', but certainly not 'gladly'.