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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
What a stupid, childish column. This yahoo gets paid to write this tripe?
41 posted on 05/09/2021 6:42:21 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: DoodleBob

I have a nice message for a shirt:

“Pay me a million dollars or shut up!”


42 posted on 05/09/2021 6:42:23 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

Still trying to figure out how me not getting a shot harms those that consider themselves immunized…


43 posted on 05/09/2021 6:43:22 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: DoodleBob

https://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Selfishness-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/0451163931

It is very selfish to care about what poisons are pumped into you.

You own your body.

You own your life.

Anyone who tells you differently is an evil sociopath.


44 posted on 05/09/2021 6:44:39 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

I want one! But I want an additional slogan on the back of the T-shirt that says “Who is John Galt?”


45 posted on 05/09/2021 6:45:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: EBH

Gothcha- thank you


46 posted on 05/09/2021 6:45:15 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Robert DeLong
Here is his twitter feed as well:

Rex Huppke @RexHuppke - (VERY SERIOUS) Chicago Tribune humor columnist (syndicated). Narwhal lover. Hypocrisy enthusiast. WOKE MOB, CO-FOUNDER. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (2017 to present).

47 posted on 05/09/2021 6:45:20 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DoodleBob

They pay someone to write this junior high quality crap?


48 posted on 05/09/2021 6:47:01 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: DoodleBob
Selfish? When did that line of fire start?

This stuff isn't going to stop until the type of people that come up with these ideas are punched in the mouth, both figuratively and literally.

49 posted on 05/09/2021 6:47:06 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: DoodleBob

He ridicules the idea of a vaccine passport being a form of tyranny then turns right around and advocates MANDATORY T-shirts.


50 posted on 05/09/2021 6:47:17 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

👍🏻👍🏻


51 posted on 05/09/2021 6:47:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: DoodleBob

Or maybe the unvaccinated would have to wear masks and the vaccinated would not be allowed to wear them.

I think I just triggered a virtue signaling liberal.


52 posted on 05/09/2021 6:48:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Robert DeLong

Take you shot and watch those who don’t take it die. You are safe as safe can be.


53 posted on 05/09/2021 6:48:48 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: SauronOfMordor

I still think they are trying to kill as many of us hoi polloi as they can. How big a population reduction do they want? 70%? 90%? That’s why they won’t allow widespread use of Ivermectin.


54 posted on 05/09/2021 6:49:15 AM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on...)
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To: DoodleBob

Democrats are all about mandating behavior.

Mandate this.


55 posted on 05/09/2021 6:49:58 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Magnatron

Still trying to figure out how me not getting a shot harms those that consider themselves immunized…


Because it’s not really about protection.


56 posted on 05/09/2021 6:49:58 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: DoodleBob

Instead “selfish”, I’d prefer

..........I.........
.........Am.........
.........Not........
..........A.........
.......Sheeple......


57 posted on 05/09/2021 6:51:08 AM PDT by Wuli ("")
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To: DoodleBob

Everyone has to save the planet and everyone on it, NOW.

We’re all in this together.

You are no longer an individual, just a little gear within billions of gears, all turning as one.

This argument works for everything in your life now, not just your medical care, which you shouldn’t control, just like you shouldn’t control anything about your life.

Except assisted suicide, that’s perfectly fine.

And killing your baby, that’s fine.

Killing your baby may be the next requirement, by the way.

Freedom is gone. You must think only of the collective.


58 posted on 05/09/2021 6:51:31 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: DoodleBob

Science deniers would wear this tshirt. The sentiment expresses their belief the vaccine does NOT work.


59 posted on 05/09/2021 6:51:52 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: DoodleBob
unfortunately, vaccine pride is not as prevalent as it should be

Isn't pride a sin?

60 posted on 05/09/2021 6:52:32 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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