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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    You have to be living under a rock, somewhere completely off the grid (where Covid isn't running rampant anyhow), to not know that the vaccine is available. You are talking about the same people who would find their way to a Trump rally and arrive 3 hours early if he was coming to town. In the United States? Of course, 95 percent of people who are unvaccinated at this point are unvaccinated by choice. A poll just the other day looked at those people and something like 75 percent of them said they are refusing to get the vaccine (not that they didn't know one was available to them, which is absurd).

    States have done zero to promote or urge people to get the vaccine? Who the fuck cares. ... We're not children. We're all responsible for ourselves when we enter this world. And there has been no shortage of news, social media, word of mouth, and Covid affecting others all around us in devastating ways, etc. that has made everyone in this country who is sentient aware of the virus and the vaccine. The suggestion that the problem is that people haven't been treated children being force fed spinach is just absurd to me.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 5, 2021
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  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    There are millions of Americans who're the medical equivalent of the unbanked, folks who for whatever reason, usually poverty, don't see doctors very often and probably have little trust in a medical system that might be a one-way ticket to bankruptcy for them. But the outreach effort by governments at all levels has been as extensive as it could possibly be.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Jul 5, 2021
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  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Even this is kind of a cop out. Medicaid covers one in five Americans. ... around 75 million adults. Those people were able to figure out how to get themselves on Medicaid and figure out how to avail themselves of whatever it offers.

    There are undoubtedly people like what you are describing, but that is NOT what is going on with regard to all of the unvaccinated people. The number of uninsured people, let alone the subset of those people who are poor and distrust the medical system, is dwarfed by the number of people being covered by multiple government programs that they somehow suspend all of their distrust for.

    Let's at least be honest about what is going on in the country. We're a nation of idiots. Nearly everyone knows there is a vaccine they can get at this point. Millions are CHOOSING not to get it. If some free benefit that they actually wanted became available? Those same people would know about it, learn about what they have to do, and they'd happily collect it.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 5, 2021
    #21231
  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    When the government was giving out stimulus checks there seemed to be no lack of ways to get information about them, and people who had not gotten theirs were very loudly visible.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jul 5, 2021
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  5. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    By "quit," I presume the author means "retire."
    But this is clearly getting out of control, part 2,234,897.
    Your job in many cases requires you to be in close contact with your co-workers. It is, we are told, essential to security of freedom and liberty and God and family values. What does the virus thrive on? Density.
    Apparently the peer pressure culture of a collective venture just isn't that strong. We're all in this together until we're told that there's a choice and that one of the choices is Trumpism. At that point, respect for teammates and mission dissipates.
     
    tapintoamerica, Jul 5, 2021
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  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Hmmmm …

     
    TheSportsPredictor, Jul 5, 2021
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  7. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    Wait ‘til the college football season and upwards of 90,000 people are getting together.

     
    matt_garth, Jul 5, 2021
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  8. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    And most of them shop at Walmart, where they’re announcing every day that you can walk right over to the pharmacy and get your choice of either Moderna or J&J vaccines, and that it’s free.

    At some point, it becomes so easy to get that not doing so requires intent.
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Jul 5, 2021
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  9. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Q
    "Quitters" from the Army are called "deserters." Jailed, dishonorably discharged, or shot.
     
    micropolitan guy, Jul 5, 2021
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  10. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    I’m sure Canada will be thrilled to take in this generation of deserters who are intent on getting as many people infected as possible.
     
    wicked, Jul 5, 2021
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  11. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Thankfully, even the biggest storms can have silver linings ...

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    Slacker, Jul 5, 2021
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  12. SFIND

    SFIND Well-Known Member

    JFC. What trash humor.

    In a way I guess, it couldn't be a more perfect picture. A low-brow attempt at humor on a POS sign out in the sticks somewhere.
     
    SFIND, Jul 5, 2021
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