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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


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To: SauronOfMordor

If only it were that innocent...


21 posted on 05/09/2021 6:33:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DoodleBob

“...a sizable swath of the population prefers to poo-poo the one thing...”

Rex, the expression you wanted was “pooh-pooh”. Poo-poo is what fills your cranial vault.


22 posted on 05/09/2021 6:33:21 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DoodleBob

I got vaccinated and I WILL wear a t-shirt like that.

F-them. I’m not playing that game. The vaccines are a choice.

If they wanna play Star of David on our cloths, everyone I know, family and friends will wear one too.

Wrong is wrong.

Stupid morons.


23 posted on 05/09/2021 6:33:30 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: DoodleBob

24 posted on 05/09/2021 6:34:05 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: DoodleBob

Leftists love the word MANDATORY.


25 posted on 05/09/2021 6:34:19 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: DoodleBob

But I’ll bet he’s pro-choice on abortion...


26 posted on 05/09/2021 6:35:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: EBH

I am not sure- Are you serious about someone being selfish for wanting to go out to dinner at the ‘expense’ of a vaccine?

This ‘vaccine’ is not tested enough to make be confident in its use, so I will NOT be getting it. Does that make me selfish?


27 posted on 05/09/2021 6:35:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: mewzilla

Bet Mr. Safety also supports legal weed, too...


28 posted on 05/09/2021 6:36:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: DoodleBob
mandatory “I’M SELFISH!” T-shirts

I'm old enough to remember the I'M SELFISH AIDS T-shirts..........

29 posted on 05/09/2021 6:36:25 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Mr. K

No, the author is being selfish in demanding everyone get the shot so he can go out to dinner.


30 posted on 05/09/2021 6:36:45 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: DoodleBob

I’d wear a “My body, My choice” tshirt.


31 posted on 05/09/2021 6:36:51 AM PDT by Frohickey
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To: DoodleBob

What happened to my body, my choice?????
Oh that’s right,
That only pertains to killing unborn children....
🤔


32 posted on 05/09/2021 6:37:27 AM PDT by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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To: mewzilla

Question for Huppke: When we’re dealing with a disease with a survival rate of over 99%, what’s an acceptable number of vaccine-related deaths to incur while mass vaccinating for it?

Just curious, Mr. Huppke.


33 posted on 05/09/2021 6:38:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: DoodleBob
Other T-Shirt ideas:

"The Nazis conducted medical experiments on unwilling victims."

"These are not vaccines but experiments."

"You didn't do your research on the "vaccine", you ARE the research."

"Let me choose the next experiment on you."

"If this "vaccine" is so great, why is Jao Bai-Din flooding the border with un-vaccinated illegals?"

"If Jao Bai-Din got the "vaccine", why is he still wearing a mask? Did he not get it? Is it not effective?"

"If the "vaccine" is safe, why are "vaccine" manufacturers indemnified?"

34 posted on 05/09/2021 6:39:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DoodleBob

<< the vaccine-wary could keep us from reaching herd immunity >>

We have immunity from the herd.


35 posted on 05/09/2021 6:39:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: DoodleBob

Rex Huppke writes a humor(ish) column. He is considered (by himself) to be America’s most-beloved columnist, though there is no empirical evidence of that. Before becoming a columnist he spent a decade reporting on social justice issues, from poverty and gang violence to the gay civil rights movement. He previously worked for The Associated Press.

36 posted on 05/09/2021 6:40:22 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DoodleBob

Sheep Dog, Not Sheep.


37 posted on 05/09/2021 6:40:42 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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Yeah yellow star or spiked corona virus t-shirt with an oriental virus face...


38 posted on 05/09/2021 6:41:45 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: DoodleBob

I have a counter proposal: Issue ‘Control Group’ Armbands.


39 posted on 05/09/2021 6:41:55 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: DoodleBob

I’m still confused. If the “vaccines” work, then why the hysterical reaction from those that got the jab whenever they find someone that says they aren’t going to get it? I don’t remember anybody being like that for ANY vaccination in the past.


40 posted on 05/09/2021 6:41:57 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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