Posted on 08/25/2021 12:35:04 PM PDT by lightman
If you believe what the Biden Administration says, you'd think that its top priority right now and for the past several months has been to convince the "vaccine-hesitant" to get the vaccine. It has tried so many approaches... enticements through lotteries and give-aways, coercion through name-calling and mandates, public shaming and mockery.
You name it, the administration's tried it. And yet, there continues to be a significant portion of the public who remain unvaccinated.
You'd think after all those efforts, the Biden team would start looking at its approach and strategy and rethink its plan. Maybe it'd recognize that everything it's tried hasn't worked, and maybe some fresh ideas would serve it better.
You'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
This week, like every week since the pandemic began, we saw Dr. Anthony Fauci lecturing us about how we should be behaving based on whatever rules Fauci has decided to glom onto this week.
"I respect people's freedom, but..." No! Stop right there. If you truly respect people's freedom, then your sentence would stop. You wouldn't have a big but there. And it's a big but... Kardashian proportions.
Believe it or not, geniuses, trotting Fauci out on Anderson Cooper to scream "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" literally convinces NOBODY. Anyone who still respects this guy has already gotten the shot. Anyone who hasn't is probably not watching Anderson Cooper.
Maybe Fauci should do a private zoom call with his fellow Ph.D.'s. "Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a PhD); by May PhD's were the most hesitant group," according to a recent Carnegie Mellon study.
One thing you don't need a study for is to reach the conclusion that Fauci has outstayed his welcome. He is preaching to the choir every time he goes on a boring Beltway Sunday show and lectures the unwashed masses who aren't watching and aren't listening. This is now just an exercise in narcissism, and it only further entrenches people in their positions. There is nothing Fauci could say right now that could convince someone to get the vaccine.
The real root of the problem Biden has is revealed in the very first words of this column. "If you believe what the Biden Administration says..."
The fact is, most people don't. And the more he and his vice president and his spokesperson slam the podium, point fingers, mock, threaten, and snark, they only succeed in further alienating the very people they claim to want to reach and convince.
It won't work.
This is a man who launched his campaign on a provable, bald-faced, atrocious lie. He said he knew he had to run because of Charlottesville.
“That’s when we heard the words from the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation,” Biden intoned, that there were “some very fine people on both sides.” Biden said that Trump “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it,” and that in this moment Biden concluded “we are in a battle for the soul of the nation.”
By now you know (or I certainly hope you know) that Trump said this in Charlottesville: "And you had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the White nationalists, because they should be condemned totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists."
Biden began his campaign on a lie and kept that lie going right up through the inauguration, where he promised to bring us together as a nation. Since then, he has done nothing to bring us together.
He has appointed a secretary of defense whose main objective has been to divide those who wear the uniform into tidy little Critical Race Theory subsets.
He has pushed through trillions of dollars in so-called "Covid relief" spending and used those measures to claim that Republicans who didn't go along with his obscene, needless spree had actually voted to "defund the police."
He has claimed that the mere notion that a photo ID should be required before a person voted is racist and worse than segregationist-era Jim Crow laws.
These are not the acts of a unifying president. These are the acts of a duplicitous, fear-mongering thug.
And, let's not forget, he divided us during the campaign over these very vaccines.
He and his running mate sewed the early seeds of doubt about the nature of the vaccines, the process under which they were developed, and the authorization process used to bring them to market. Their claim, at the time, was that if Trump oversaw the entire process, these vaccines can't be trusted.
Once he came into office, he lied about the vaccine distribution plan he had inherited. First, the administration claimed its goal would be 100 million shots in 100 days, even though Trump had us on that pace before Biden took office. Biden then falsely claimed the distribution regime was a disorganized mess.
The fact is, Biden and his craven political hacks have politicized these vaccines from the beginning.
If Biden really wanted to break through some people's vaccine reluctance, he'd address the nation like this:
My fellow Americans, I lied to you. Vice President Harris lied to you too. When we were campaigning, we purposefully, without any evidence, lied about President Trump and his management of the vaccination process. We lied because we are politicians who will literally do or say anything to be elected and gain power, even if it means politicizing a health crisis.
The fact is, the vaccines are a miracle, and we have one man to thank, President Donald Trump. I should have set politics aside and said so in the Fall of 2020, but I was so desperate to win the election I put us all in danger by suggesting the shots couldn't be trusted.
Please forgive me. Please join me in honoring Donald Trump and his incredible achievement and please, utilize this incredible triumph of American ingenuity and protect yourself by getting vaccinated.
Until he does something like this, the vaccine will be seen by many people as a political weapon because that's how it has been treated thus far.
Listen, it's not my job to get you vaccinated or to convince you to do so. I'm vaccinated, and so is my family. It was the right decision for us, and considering the people in my life over the past several weeks who were unvaccinated, contracted the virus, and have ended up in the hospital or dead, I'm glad I got vaccinated.
The shot does not guarantee that you will not catch the virus. If Biden or Fauci said that, they were stupid liars... ignore them.
The reality is that you may still catch the virus. But, as of now, you are five times more likely to get the virus if you are unvaccinated. Also, you are 29 times more likely to get hospitalized if you are unvaccinated and catch the virus.
The way the media treats this story and the way the Biden Administration treats it, and the way pop culture treats it and academia and the teachers' unions and Fauci and the CDC and all of them... it feels like a relentless bullying attack. I get it. I know. They all suck.
They have lied to us so many times and treated us with such contempt that it is impossible to take them seriously on this. I know.
I also know this weekend a person close to my family died. She was 75 and healthy. She was not vaccinated. She is now dead. I also know that a colleague (a radio host who was hostile to the idea of getting vaccinated) also died this weekend. He was not vaccinated. He is now dead.
You can agree with me that Biden is a liar and Psaki is duplicitous, and Fauci is a hack, and their tactics to try to force you to get vaccinated are un-American, disrespectful, and offensive. You can agree with me on all of that... and you can still get vaccinated because it was a triumph of the Trump Administration. He was right, you were right to support and celebrate him, and like Trump, you can exercise your independence and freedom by getting vaccinated, stay alive and vote these jerks out in 2022 and beyond.
I respect your freedom. No but.
I must be the ONLY person who doesn’t know a single person who has gotten sick and was even hospitalized from the China Virus. The closest is a friend of mine who said a friend of his knows someone who told him THEY knew a person who died.
I’m not making this up.
Still, NO!
Until 5 years without a cancer spike have passed, I will not participate in the experiment.
Usse FEAR, but the problem is that those unvaxxed already KNOW that the masks and vaxxes DO NO WORK! It’s in their faces especially if they read what going on in Israel!
We had one distant relative who had major heart trouble (pre-Covid) and eventually died from it.
The hospital gave his corpse a Covid test and it came up positive.
They claim death caused by Covid—I claim deep bull&&&&.
Other than that, we do not know anybody who even got sick enough to know they had it.
Fauci DOES NOT have a Ph.D.
Children and teens should definitely not get the shot.
and probably adults without preexisting conditions should not get the shot,as well.
Otherwise good luck forcing? the 100+ million unshot to take the shot.
Btw are the newly arriving afghan refugees required to get the shot?
“But, as of now, you are five times more likely to get the virus if you are unvaccinated. Also, you are 29 times more likely to get hospitalized if you are unvaccinated and catch the virus.”
WTF??????????
Show me the data
I always hate the gubment's one-size-fits-all approach, including with the china virus. There're all kinds of variables. Girls and young women who aren't done making babies are the last ones who need to get the jab. If you're in upper age, maybe have another problem (i.e. diabetic) and have to be around the public a lot (i.e. still working to keep up with our rampant inflation), maybe it's a good idea to get the jab.
I’m with you on this.
I can’t trust anyone - either side - on this issue.
This lack of trust on my part is why I haven’t taken the vax.
You would think that at 76, overweight, with high blood pressure and breathing difficulties I would jump at the chance for the jab. I even made, and broke, two appointments for it. I just can’t bring myself to do it.
I’m not an anti-vaxxer. Until tue plague hit I’d been getting my flu shot, shingle, pneumonia, tetanus, whatever but thanks to the politicians and the scumbag medical community that has its lips super glued to the government’s ass, I trust no one.
Here’s how you can convince me - tell me “The needle goes into your arm or the bayonet goes into your ribs”.
Then, I might agree.
Otherwise, “No”.
The whole thing is pure BS. This crap is no worse than any other virus we have had making the rounds and in many respects it is far less deadly because we KNOW who the most susceptible are and we also know how to treat them.
This comes from the recent wave in Los Angeles.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e5.htm?s_cid=mm7034e5_w
“ On July 25, the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among unvaccinated persons was 4.9 times and the hospitalization rate was 29.2 times the rates among fully vaccinated persons.”
There are, and have been, only four recycled stories in the "news feeds" lately.
Covid, vaccines, Afghanistan and Biden is senile.
I am so sick and tired of reading about those four subjects over and over again, ad infinitum.
Resorting to playing digital solitaire on my computer instead.
Fascisti was one of my attendings when I was a student in medical school in 1970. He was just as terrible a human being then as he is now. He disgusts me.
There is nothing Fraudci or anyone else could say, do, offer, or threaten.
"Republican"/"Conservatives" like this who say "you ought to guzzle down the vaccine propaganda because Trump started it!" are just as stupid as the Demonrats trying to push it on us. WE. STILL. WILL. NOT. COMPLY.
YEP. Amen.
Telling me that our government trying to coerce me into taking the vaccine isn’t effective, then telling me people you knew are now dead because they didn’t get vaccinated also causes me to view you (the author) in the same light as our duplicitous government. Don’t start an article that seems centered on criticizing our government’s heavy handed bullying tactics to coerce the citizen as immoral, then doing effectively the same thing to push the government’s same agenda. It’s shady, duplicitous, and just plain wrong.
Free full auto AR-10 and any gun of your choice with free ammo for life and I may think about it.
If someone tells me that, I pull my pistol. Threatening such is violence.
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