Covid-19 threatens to become a zombie virus: one that never goes away but just keeps changing its spikes and thistles and finding new people to infect. Why?
Because about 1/2 of the American people simply reuse to get vaccinated.
Call them vaccine hesitant or vaccine resistant; say they are misinformed or politicizing public health. There are as many euphemisms for what's going on as there are excuses for why people won't get the shot that could save their life and save all of us the agony of never being rid of this disease.
There are, in fact, only three types of people who refuse the vaccine- -the stupid, the stubborn, and the seditious.
THE STUPID believe anything and everything they read on Facebook and hear on right-wing news. They are convinced beyond unconvincing that Covid is a made-up illness, that the tally of its victims is wildly exaggerated, that the vaccines are not adequately tested for safety and don't work
in any case. if everybody around them who is vaccinated stayed free of Covid and everybody who is unvaccinated got infected, these people would say it was just a coincidence. They are, in other words, intractably stupid.
THE STUBBORN made a point early on of resisting the vaccine for whatever reason and now they feel they can't change their mind without losing their street cred. These macho-morons strut around unmasked, unvaccinated and unapologetic. They're "tough". They trust their own immune system more than any human-made drug. They know people who caught Covid, then recovered uneventfully. If they started coughing, could not breathe, felt weak and painy all over their body and were on the verge of expiring, with their last tortured breath they would say, "This ain't Covid".
THE SEDITIOUS defy all sensible public health measures, insisting that doing so puts them on the side of "freedom" when, in fact, they see it as
the way to win the hearts and capture the votes of enough people to seize power and never have to give it up.
Put them all together, they spell the end of our democracy. Ain't that an attractive thought?
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