Posted on 09/11/2021 9:46:42 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
The issue of mandatory vaccination is once again an item of debate in media circles given the recent outbreaks in measles, and fueled this week by the continued inability of politicians to discuss vaccination policy without sounding like anti-science fools....
The current vaccine debate, unlike those prior ones, is actually motivated by a real problem (the return of diseases presumed previously eradicated) as opposed to conspiratorial musings....But vaccination is not about protecting the vaccinated so much as it is about protecting others from disease-carriers. Vaccines are properly understood not on the basis of narrow self-interest but as a defense of the human species.
Fundamentally, the protection against life-threatening plague is one of the original reasons government exists...
If you choose not to vaccinate, private and public institutions should be able to discriminate on that basis. Disneyland should be able to require proof of vaccination as a condition of entry, and so should public schools. You shouldn’t be compelled to vaccinate your child, but neither should the rest of us be compelled to pretend like you did....
If the decline in MMR vaccination continues, perhaps the federal government could take the step of making access to the child tax credit contingent upon vaccination. If we’re going to have redistributive social engineering in the tax code, it may as well be for children who aren’t carrying disease around Disneyland....
Ben Domenech is the publisher of The Federalist.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
The worst part about your very accurate statement is, it’s all being done by a small group of people that have been allowed to control the narrative.
They can say that with a straight face when the CDC changes the definition of vaccine and they’ve spent the last 6 mo the having to put out fire after fire when what they say is found to be wrong or a lie.
If the vaccine were a vaccine and not an experimental gene therapy device...
If efforts were made to treat victims as soon as they became infected rather than waiting until they were terminal...
If the vaxxed were not super carriers shedding many times more viral load than nonvaxxed...
If the jab protected the vaxxed...
If there were honesty about the source of the virus...
If the CDC was interested in a cure...
If information about the virus was not censored...
If Fauci were not a lying fraud and the source of the bioweapon...
If there was honesty about masks and social distancing...
If government efforts to control the virus did not look like tyranny...
If the major social platforms did not censor anything they disagreed with...
If there were honesty about the impact of the virus...
If every effort were being made to treat patients as soon as they tested positive...
If it were not so manifestly apparent that the leadership on this virus was committed to the highest possible death rate...
If these and a thousand other important issues were dealt with openly and honestly...
Then I still would not take the jab.
Other than staying at home when I’m sick — when I’m symptomatic — I am not responsible for anyone else’s heath ... or their “feelings” for that matter: Eff ‘em!
Regarding the argument against this ‘vaccine’ being forced upon us. If this can be successfully resisted what bearing would it have on current vaccination policy regarding attending public school? Is this something that could eliminate all requirements?
First - this is not a vaccine
Second - the definition of vaccine has been changed to better fit this jab
Third - if it were truly as bad as they say more people would be (willingly) getting in line for the jab; no need to push advertising campaigns similar to selling automobile insurance or ED fixes.
Under statism, collectivism, Communism, fascism etc there are always masters and there are slaves.
The masters issue orders and the slaves obey.
All the rest is irrelevant monkey mouth noises.
Domenech has always been wacky but at least better than others on Media Buzz. However, that show got too commie for me to stomach after the election. I like Federalist writer Molly Hemingway but I don’t know if she’s vaccine-gullible. Hope not.
Certainly, every employer should carefully consider their actions as to the jabs; the bottom line, IMO, is their freedom to mandate or not to mandate—at their discretion.
Traitors. May they burn.
Isn’t this the organization that Trump relied on for all his Judicial appointments? I know Robert Barnes has a very low opinion of them if so.
One more moron I don’t have to bother with. Hey Ben, if you are vaccinated, you are safe, what do you care if someone isn’t? At least 13,000 people have died in the US alone taking the jabs, not to mention side effects that can be quite severe...are you saying people should be forced to play Russian Roulette with their lives? Are you prepared to take jabs every few months for the rest of your life? Can the government now mandate you take any shot Dr Fauci deems necessary? Did I miss the vote in Congress that authorized this? Is Dr Fauci our dictator?
At least in the Medieval period the surfs owned their stomachs.
the **issue** is about the free individual’s right as endowed by the Creator to Informed Consent. period.
Like Erick Erickson RedState?
Guilt by association, distilled and concentrated like fentanyl. Just a little microgram kills 50,000 people.
Nothing more to say.
Perhaps “It’s not a vaccine” should be the main argument in the legal fights breaking out across the nation.
I am assuming there are legal fights.
Remember last summer when they said it could take years to develop a vaccine? Funny, I don’t remember anyone back then saying that we must produce a vaccine ASAP, because if the whole population is unvaccinated, it will lead to the creation of dangerous new variants.
Not a word about variants until they had a vaccine that they could shove down our throats.
The same principle applies to how they could have never gotten away with all these lockdowns 50 years ago, when there was no such thing as work from home, or zoom classes, or having everything you need delivered to your door via Amazon Prime and Fresh Direct.
Imagine if they proposed shutting down schools and office buildings for a year, with no alternative methods for getting any work done, because of a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. Imagine telling people to quarantine at home for several months, if there was no way to get basic essentials delivered to people efficiently.
Isn’t it just a happy coincidence that they created a digitized world that enabled them to impose these lockdowns, and everybody just said “cool, I can work in my underwear...what a great time to be alive”.
Isn’t the author married to Songbird McWealel’s daughter?
An army of Big Biotech companies is using psych tactics to ‘create vaccine demand’
A new ‘Vaccination Demand Observatory’ is using surveillance, bots, and ‘behavior change’ mass marketing schemes to press reluctant people into getting the shots
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