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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 02:15 PM Sep 2021

A message to the unvaccinated and unmasked

By The Herald Editorial Board

If there’s one pandemic symptom that seems universal and now rampant — regardless of vaccination status and mask use — it’s frustration; seething, consuming and infectious frustration.

Those who have refused jabs for one of three vaccines for covid-19 and chafe at advice and mandates for masks have had it with the rest of us — including their own family members — over the coaxing and cajoling, the shaming and the guilt, the warnings and the threats.

They are not impressed. They are not swayed. They are certain they are right; they — after all — have done their own research. And they are not going to listen; not to statistics; not to medical experts; certainly not to public officials and editorial writers; not even to those who once agreed with their antivax stance but now have made deathbed appeals — gasping for each breath — that they, please, get vaccinated.

But the rest of us are fed up, too. And this isn’t a guilt trip; it’s anger. Anger borne out of months of personal sacrifice; separation from friends, family and church; loss of businesses, of income, of savings; restrictions on our travel and our pastimes; and fatigue from workarounds like remote learning, working from home and Zoom meetings. (Yes, I know I’m on mute! I don’t want you to hear me swearing.)

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https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-a-message-to-the-unvaccinated-and-unmasked/

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A message to the unvaccinated and unmasked (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
im also fed up with the below the noses and below the chinners . AllaN01Bear Sep 2021 #1
They use their masks to catch their drool. vanlassie Sep 2021 #3
Softly and tenderly, Herman is calling... Blue Owl Sep 2021 #2
If people were throwing trash and garbage around town they would be fined maybe locked Up Walleye Sep 2021 #4
Facts! Stephanie Ruhle just said it ALL LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #5
False equivalence.. Permanut Sep 2021 #6

Walleye

(31,022 posts)
4. If people were throwing trash and garbage around town they would be fined maybe locked Up
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 02:49 PM
Sep 2021

Nobody would feel bad about shaming or scolding them. What has gotten into us?

Permanut

(5,608 posts)
6. False equivalence..
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 05:30 PM
Sep 2021

Thanks for posting this YMBL, perfectly illustrates the idea that this is a simple disagreement about dealing with the virus.

This is not a simple disagreement; antivaxxers are killing people.

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