Moral Mandate

The Hill is reporting that at least 15 states are keeping COVID-19 breakthrough cases under wraps. The CDC no longer monitors breathrough cases that don't require severe treatments, so the states are keeping quiet about it.

Of course, COVID is on the rise again. The dreaded Delta variant is spreading. The solution, they tell us, is vaccines. Vaccines and masks. Vaccines and masks and isolation. (Kind of like a scene from The Jerk.) Vaccines will save us all. Well, of course, the CDC tells us that vaccinated people can still get the virus and vaccinated people can still spread the virus and everyone, including the vaccinated, need to wear masks for protection in both directions. Oh, did I say masks? Yeah, well, now they're saying that those bandanas and, basically, all cloth masks aren't effective. N95s ... that's what we need. Lots of them. Changed often. Those silly things most all of you are wearing (that we were already told worked fine) don't work at all. Double mask or wear medical-grade surgical masks. Preferably those N95s. Which have to be fitted to the user. And replaced daily. And fitted to the user ... ad infinitum. But don't worry. Vaccination and masks and isolation ... these will save us all ... unless, of course, they don't.

At least we have consensus in the American public to mandate vaccines ... or not. Still, the voices are getting louder to either tie people down and inject them or cut them off from any access to public spaces (including restaurants and grocery stores). Whatever it takes. Some have likened this to the Jews in Nazi Germany marked with a star of David. That, of course, doesn't go over well in the public eye. It's not the same thing. The Germans referred to Jews as a world parasite, a "virus." It's not the same thing. Okay, there are similarities, but ... it's not the same thing. We're hoping to "mark" the unvaccinated and get them "better" so we can all be better.

"Hey, haven't you heard the reports about blood clots from the vaccine?" Conspiracy theories and fearmongering won't help. "The CDC is reporting the possibility of blood clotting, inflammation of the heart muscle, even Guillan-Barré syndrome." Now, now, don't let those very, very small numbers frighten you. "Why is it that the percentage of people who had COVID and get it again is as low as the number of people who get the vaccine and get COVID?" Now, look, if you're going to keep asking these irrational questions, we'll just have to get you shot (vaccine or otherwise) and shut you up. You nut cases and your conspiracy theories ...