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When Being Unvaccinated Means Being Locked Out of Public Life
Washington Post ^ | 1/17 | Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli

Posted on 01/17/2022 2:32:09 PM PST by nickcarraway

After many rounds of rules targeting the unvaccinated, the chamber musician’s new life is unrecognizable from the old. Claudio Ronco once performed all over Europe, but now he can’t even board a plane. He can’t check into a hotel, eat at restaurant or get a coffee at a bar. Most important, he can’t use the water taxis needed to get around Venice, his home for 30 years — a loss of mobility that recently prompted him to gather up two of his prized cellos, lock up his Venetian apartment and retreat with his wife to a home owned by his in-laws one hour away in the hills.

“Isolation,” Ronco called it, on the fourth day in a row that he hadn’t left the house.

At this complicated stage of the pandemic, the lives of unvaccinated people are in major flux, at the mercy of decisions made everywhere from courts to workplaces. But their lives are changing most dramatically in a handful of countries in Western Europe, including Italy, where governments are systematically reducing their liberties, while beginning to return the rest of society to a state of normalcy. And while regular testing, until recently, was permitted as an alternative to vaccination, even that option has now been largely removed as countries harden their mandates. For people like Ronco, the choice is to get inoculated or face exclusion.

Ronco, 66, knows some people who have relented, including a fellow musician with three kids and a mortgage. He knows others who are scrambling for hard-to-get medical exemptions. But Ronco — an Orthodox Jew and a specialist in 18th-century music who tends to distrust the trends of the masses — figures this is an instance when he can try to withstand the mounting pressure. His savings are thinning, but not gone. His children

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19; unvaccinated; vaccine
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1 posted on 01/17/2022 2:32:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Well considering what’s out there in public life I’d soon rather ...


2 posted on 01/17/2022 2:37:30 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: nickcarraway

As things inevitably return to “normal” (whenever that is), we should simply boycott many of those places/organizations that were complicit in it. If these political leaders thought they were going to re-invent their cities with anti-white rhetoric, avoid them like the plague; if religious leaders wouldn’t fight for our right to avoid these experimental shots (or even assemble), de-fund them.

They’ll rue the day they let the elites destroy our liberties without a peep..


3 posted on 01/17/2022 2:37:54 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: nickcarraway

“At this complicated stage of the pandemic...”

Complicated how?

The “pandemic” is pretty much over — and was never nearly as horrible as it was made out to be.


4 posted on 01/17/2022 2:39:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wait till not having the mark they demand you take will mean you cannot buy or sell, or maybe they cut your head off.


5 posted on 01/17/2022 2:39:36 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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These Nazis need to be taken to the shed


6 posted on 01/17/2022 2:41:30 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway

He needs to escape to a free nation before it’s too late.


7 posted on 01/17/2022 2:41:47 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: BenLurkin

For what it’s worth, spring of 2020 was hairy here in the NYC metro area - primarily because flu treatments (which shouldn’t have been used) were killing patients and many weren’t using basic safety measures. It is certainly over now by comparison.


8 posted on 01/17/2022 2:41:56 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

100%.


9 posted on 01/17/2022 2:43:13 PM PST by CommieCutter (LETS GO BRANDON! 🇺🇸)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m interested to see what the WaPo has to say about this..

.. but I won’t give them the clicks.

It would seem the author isn’t totally convinced this should be this man’s reality.. but his service to the Washington compost tells me otherwise.

Is this author starting to change his mind?


10 posted on 01/17/2022 2:46:20 PM PST by Celerity
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To: ronnie raygun

In Revelation it is clear: they do not win. In fact they lose so bad that their leaders get to be in the Lake of Fire alone for a thousand years before anyone joins them.


11 posted on 01/17/2022 2:46:51 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Funny. My wife and I are now Covid-positive. Going to the Mayo Clinic website, I found this:

Most people who become sick with COVID-19 will only experience mild illness and can recover at home. Symptoms might last a few days, and people who have the virus might feel better in about a week. Treatment is aimed at relieving symptoms and includes rest, fluid intake and pain relievers.

How ‘bout that? All that fuss…

12 posted on 01/17/2022 2:47:00 PM PST by Magnatron
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13 posted on 01/17/2022 2:48:01 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Persecuting a Jewish guy? The Euros are Partying like it’s 1939!


14 posted on 01/17/2022 2:52:40 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: kearnyirish2
They’ll rue the day they let the elites destroy our liberties without a peep..

They will realize the truth that you can vote your way into communism, but you'll have to fight your way out. Sadly, it might take a long, long time for them to realize this.

15 posted on 01/17/2022 2:55:30 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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A first year nursing student would know that you don't house people with a highly transmissible virus in close quarters with people with weakened immune systems (the elderly). Yet Cuomo either didn't consult experts at Columbia,Cornell,NYU or Albert Einstein...or he ignored their advice.

That's why so many died in New York.

The Javits Center and the Navy hospital ship remained empty just so Cuomo could stick his thumb in the eye of the guy who made them possible...President Trump.

16 posted on 01/17/2022 3:00:30 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: ronnie raygun

Nazi Wapo alert.


17 posted on 01/17/2022 3:11:14 PM PST by Luke21
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To: BenLurkin

“The “pandemic” is pretty much over”

My man, for some people it’ll never be over.....just like perceived racism, for some people there’s a whole lotta money to be made keepin’ it alive.


18 posted on 01/17/2022 3:18:17 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: nickcarraway

The alleged comments following the article are more disturbing. The ‘concern troll’ nature of the WaPo’s “readers” that are allowed to have their comments shown read like 1930s Germany.

We’re in for a hard future if there are truly people like this in the majority.


19 posted on 01/17/2022 3:35:24 PM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: gitmo

He needs to escape to a free nation before it’s too late.

Like where?


20 posted on 01/17/2022 3:42:27 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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