Posted on 08/18/2021 8:05:56 AM PDT by Starman417
Suggestions that Americans get the vaccine are endless. That’s understandable. The vaccines appear to work in helping to reduce the likelihood of contracting Covid. People see that there is a possibility to stop the spread of a deadly virus and they want to encourage others to participate.
What’s not understandable are the relentless demands and the push for vaccine mandates. Do it for your fellow Americans! Real patriotism is getting the vaccine! Don’t you care about your family? These are all intended to shame the unvaccinated into getting the shot. And if those don’t work, there are the mandates.
We’ve been told that mandates are necessary because the unvaccinated are putting others at risk. That of course makes no sense because anyone who is concerned with contracting Covid and wants to get the vaccine can, and for free. Those in the high-risk category can also take other measures to try and ameliorate the threat such as staying home or wearing masks.
More recently we’re told that mandates are necessary to protect hospitals from being overwhelmed by Covid patients, most of whom apparently are unvaccinated. That may indeed be true, but overall numbers are down substantially across the country. To put this in perspective, on January 8th of this year new daily cases were 304,000 and deaths 3,995. On August 10th the number of new cases was 144,635 yet deaths were 715. The former is a decline of approximately 53% while the latter is a decline of 83%. So there may indeed be a surge, but it’s far from what the nation and hospitals were facing just six months ago. It appears to be the case that the Delta variant may be more contagious than the original, but it’s also far less deadly as well.
One last element mandate advocates use is coercion. “Any unvaccinated person who gets Covid will be turned away from hospitals to free up space for the vaccinated who might get it.” Given that we’re told hospitals are overwhelmed, one can see how that might sound logical… Only those who have taken the vaccine should be treated with the limited valuable resources available.
As we’re constantly told, such valuable resources are frequently limited, so that logic should be extended. Hospitals should also begin turning away gay men who contracted AIDS from unprotected sex, IV users who contracted AIDS from sharing needles, drunk drivers who got into accidents, lung cancer patients who smoked, liver disease patients who drank alcohol, heart disease patients who ate too many burgers and wings and surfers bitten by sharks, among others.
But the mandate advocates would never go for any of those things. It’s a “privacy” thing, of course. Even though AIDS, heart disease, and lung cancer are far more deadly than Covid, mandates to ameliorate them are verboten.
And how deadly is Covid? According to the CDC, an estimated 120 million Americans have contracted Covid in the last year and a half with 6.2 million hospitalizations and 767,000 deaths. That means that out of 120 million people infected with Covid, 99.36% of them survived. And lest someone think Covid is striking down healthy Americans in their prime, 31.8% of Covid deaths occurred in Americans over 85 years of age, 60% over the age of 75, and fully 81% above 65 years. Not only is it age, but health that correlates with Covid deaths… The CDC states that 94% of Covid deaths occurred in patients who had underlying medical conditions such as diabetes, respiratory failure, heart failure, and obesity.
So what we have is a virus that kills 0.63% of the people who contract it, 94% of whom had underlying conditions and the average age was 75 while the average American life expectancy is 79. And that assumes that 100% of the 767,000 people died OF Covid rather than just WITH Covid, which is very unlikely.
And this is where we find ourselves today… in a nation of almost 350 million people, where 2.8 million people die every year, where 7,600 people die every day of all causes, Americans are being forced to take an experimental vaccine for a virus for which they have a 99.36% chance of surviving if they catch it at all, and virtually 100% chance if they don’t have some potentially fatal underlying condition or are below 65.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
No need to read further. When an article starts out with a basic un-truth, everything that follows is suspect.
"Booster" shots anyone? If this were a vaccine in the true sense of the word, a "booster shot" wouldn't be required.
Agreed. Stopped reading right there.
New Zealand just locked down the entire country over a single COVID case so that’s how things are going over there!
If ever you feel unhappy about your regional leadership in the United States—if your governor is a little heavy-handed with the COVID restrictions, if your state legislators seem far too eager to defer to “public health experts” in shutting down your multigenerational family business—then just think, it could be worse: you could live literally anywhere in New Zealand:
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case — the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community since February...
New Zealand will be under the strictest level lockdown level for the next three days starting from 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, local time, Ardern said. Under level four lockdown, everyone must stay home and businesses are closed aside for essential services such as supermarkets and pharmacies.
All of this for one COVID case? Think how bad it would be if they’d found two.
Being forced to stay home is certainly unpleasant, no arguments there. But at least you can, you know, maybe have a chat with your neighbors over the back fence, just to keep up a little meaningful human contact? Oh wait:
"Hate Speech": ...is any speech that we hate.
That sentence is just too funny.
And now there’s this: https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pope-francis-calls-roman-catholics-to-receive-covid-vaccine-as-act-of-universal-love/ Practice run as the endtime’s False Prophet?
I do look for health insurance providers to up the premiums on unvaccinated people just like they do with smokers, though. They can, so they will...
A couple posters have a problem with the author stating that the vaccine "appears" to decrease the likelihood of being infected.
Understandable.
Still worth reading.
If someone is inoculated they can still get COVID-19, they can still spread it, and they can still get sick from it.
But somehow, the jabbed are special and should get special papers allowing them to go out in public, attend events, etc.
Is anybody else beginning to think that this isn’t about the disease?
New Zealand is weird anyway.
For instance, most antibiotics are available only with a prescription.
“Any unvaccinated person who gets Covid will be turned away from hospitals to free up space for the vaccinated who might get it.”
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Of course, that statement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever ; if you are vaccinated, you should not get it in the first place, else you got something other than a vaccine injected into your body.
After a year and a half of this garbage
these arguments have all been had
and they’re getting very stale
The bigger picture is the communist movement worldwide , which is funded by the CCP , which is try to destroy western civilization
Why did the entire country of New Zealand shut down over one supposed coronavirus positive test?
Why has Australia gone for communist and is locking down the entire country and forcing children to get the poison shots?
Why are all Democrats acting in lockstep to implement the CCCP plan?
The answer is obvious ; they’re corrupt -and they’ve taken tons of money to do so
“Any unvaccinated person who gets Covid will be turned away from hospitals to free up space for the vaccinate”
So, if you have ONE strand of the virus in your nasal mucus, you are considered to have covid, and you will be kept from hospital. The government is exercising its power of life and death over citizens. They really love that power and seeing people die a miserable death.
It happened so quick. The USA went from the land of liberty to joe biden’s chamber pot in a short time.
Not that everybody doesn't remember this but I'll just remind you that "flatten the curve" for two weeks in April of 2020 was how we got ourselves into this mandate mess to begin with.
Notice how well that worked out for us.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. Fool us a third time and we're not paying attention.
Wake up folks.
If this were a vaccine in the true sense of the word, a “booster shot” wouldn’t be required.
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Agreed. However, the CDC has redefined the definition of vaccine.
Per the CDC website on 7/30/21:
A vaccine stimulates your immune system to produce antibodies, exactly like it would if you were exposed to the disease. After getting vaccinated, you develop immunity to that disease, without having to get the disease first.
Per the CDC website today 8/18/21:
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
Take note of the subtle revision. The original definition says a vaccine gives you “immunity” while the revision says it “protects” you. Big difference between the two. Protection is NOT immunity.
Well, DUH!
The red guard is smearing the unvaccinated, like me, as lepers. They hope all of the unvaccinated are Trump supporters. I think their coercive campaign will backfire. Soon the vaccinated, who do not get a booster shot, will join us in the leper colony.
And I STILL won’t take it. The harder these people push, the more we resist.
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