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Column: Instead of vaccine passports, issue mandatory ‘I’M SELFISH!’ T-shirts to those who refuse shots
Chicago Tribune ^ | April 22, 2021 | Rex Huppke

Posted on 05/09/2021 6:21:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob

I would love a COVID-19 vaccine passport. After more than a year in full or partial quarantine, I’m so happy to be vaccinated I want to get the words “FULLY” and “VAXXED” tattooed on my butt and run naked through the streets. (Don’t worry, I won’t. America has suffered enough.)

Unfortunately … sorry, that’s a side effect of the Pfizer vaccine … unfortunately, vaccine pride is not as prevalent as it should be, and a sizable swath of the population prefers to poo-poo the one thing that can lead us out of a pandemic that has killed more than 550,000 Americans.

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And on that point, we most definitely are not pulling together “as one people to a common goal.” A Monmouth University poll released April 14 found 43% of Republicans say they’re unlikely to get the vaccine. That contributes heavily to the 1 in 5 Americans overall who say they won’t get vaccinated.

....The hesitant-to-get-vaccinated are also up in arms over the idea of a vaccine passport, I guess because of “tyranny” or some other incorrect but scary sounding word... but the vaccine-wary could keep us from reaching herd immunity and increase the risk of weird, dangerous COVID-19 mutations. Without enough vaccinations, we can’t breathe easy and swim out of the undertow of stress that sucked us down more than a year ago.

The good news is I have a plan that should appeal to folks fearful of a vaccine or vaccine passports...So instead of providing vaccine passports to people who get the Pfizer or Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shots, let’s just issue mandatory “I’M SELFISH!” T-shirts to those who refuse.

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To: DoodleBob
Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity

In Illinois (and most states), Blacks are undervaccinated compared to their percentage of the population, Whites are overvaccinated.

If people won't get vaccinated, they aren't going to wear a silly shirt. If they won't get vaccinated, perhaps he should think about (and write about) WHY they won't get vaccinated.

Rex Huppke is an idiot.

101 posted on 05/09/2021 8:02:38 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: technically right; Jane Long; FrogMom
Every step along this pandemic when 3 points looked secure, Lucy pulled the football:

-Two weeks to flatten the curve
-Social distancing
-Mask mandates
-shutdowns
-Headcount limitations on public gatherings (unless you're rioting or destroying property)
-Operation Warp Speed
-Double masks

Now, Trump's not in power, President* Bidet is flopping around, vaccines are in open abundance, and they STILL aren't satisfied.

Make no mistake, even vaccine mandates won't satiate these ghouls.

102 posted on 05/09/2021 8:04:00 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Old Yeller
I’m not interested in a cytokine storm.

Or being impotent or sterile. And at that point, it's not about being selfish, is about preserving the species.
103 posted on 05/09/2021 8:06:34 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: DoodleBob

Whatever, I still have my “Deplorable” shirt!


104 posted on 05/09/2021 8:11:48 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: DoodleBob

105 posted on 05/09/2021 8:14:34 AM PDT by MAAG (Surely the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets.)
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To: DugwayDuke; EBH
Are you aware that this ‘experimental shot’ will be fully APPROVED by the end of the year?

"will" is a strong word.

What if the Bidet Admin finds the vaccines faulty, because ya know Trump and all that? Then the vaxxes will need to be reconstituted and everyone needs to be revaxxed with the Bidet vax.

Or there can be new strains, or some new fakery, or whatever. The insatiable demand for power isn't about to be quenched.

I wrote elsewhere, that the statist Lucys keep pulling the footballs. I have zero hope/belief/expectation that we will be "back to normal" in a free and open society by the fall.

106 posted on 05/09/2021 8:22:34 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Jane Long

My message to the shame/guilt crowd:

“Zero out your carbon footprint and save your planet. If you do not do it you are selfish.”


107 posted on 05/09/2021 8:23:16 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: DoodleBob

Progressives who received the Jab should get shirts that read “I’m virtuous”


108 posted on 05/09/2021 8:29:04 AM PDT by week 71
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To: cgbg

Oooh.....that’s a good one!!


109 posted on 05/09/2021 8:30:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: DoodleBob

Rex disqualified himself from being taken seriously. His snutty
attitude and sophomoric insults indelibly mark him as a pedestrian parrot squawking futile bromides.


110 posted on 05/09/2021 8:30:22 AM PDT by Knocker (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: DoodleBob

Freedom, personal liberty, exercising Constitutional rights, and demanding answerable officials- all selfish. Lemmings aren’t selfish. Be more like them.


111 posted on 05/09/2021 8:33:43 AM PDT by lastchance
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To: DoodleBob

How about “I’M STUPID” shirts for those who got these experimental injections? They aren’t truly “vaccines”, because the government itself admits you can still catch and transmit the virus if you’re fully “vaccinated”.


112 posted on 05/09/2021 8:35:23 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: CodeToad

Again, if someone got the shot, how is my not getting it selfish since they are protected by their shot, right?
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I’ve heard a concern that unless everyone gets vaccinated, the virus will mutate, and then the vaccine will not work.


113 posted on 05/09/2021 8:36:31 AM PDT by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
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To: DoodleBob

Achtung!! Its coming


114 posted on 05/09/2021 8:36:33 AM PDT by week 71
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To: heavy metal

I think that is really what is at issue.

I don’t believe this is so bad of a virus that this level of paranoia and panic is warranted. People are disproportionately scared because of the constant fear porn.

As far as I’m concerned, there are many diseases that cause death particularly in old people. Just add this to the list. If you’re older you may want to consider the vaccine. To demand that young people get it is insanity.

So for many people whom can see through the hysteria and look at the reality around us, with over a years worth of data, it just doesn’t live up to the headlines. So no, why risk it?

My body my choice. If you’re scared take the vaccine, then you’re covered, why do you care if I don’t as I’m only part of a group that would rather not and risk just living?


115 posted on 05/09/2021 8:38:46 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: KittyKares
I’ve heard a concern that unless everyone gets vaccinated, the virus will mutate, and then the vaccine will not work.

The flaw in that argument is that it is based on a critically flawed assumption--that the vaccines are 100% effective.

In addition, un-vaccinated illegal aliens will still be crossing the border and/or foreigners would still be flying in to the country from all over the (partially un-vaccinated) world.

If the vaccine fanatics were serious they would close the borders and close the airports to foreigners.
116 posted on 05/09/2021 8:41:27 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

At this point, I don’t see any proof it’s even a vaccine.


117 posted on 05/09/2021 8:42:56 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: DoodleBob

Non-GMO.


118 posted on 05/09/2021 8:52:52 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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To: DoodleBob

“A Monmouth University poll released April 14 found 43% of Republicans say they’re unlikely to get the vaccine.”

That right there is the crux of it.

Political hatred, not safety, is what is driving this entire government compliance mentality on the Left.

I am 100% sure that if Republicans were the ones pushing for vaccines, this a-hole would be taking the exact opposite position.


119 posted on 05/09/2021 8:53:32 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: DoodleBob

And everyone else wears a “I’m a human guinea pig” t-shirt?


120 posted on 05/09/2021 8:53:47 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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