Something I've never heard anybody say about anti-vaxxers.

[Jeebo]

Those people in the white lab coats with their glass slides and microscopes and petri dishes accomplished something really notable and noble when they developed those vaccines. Think about how difficult what they accomplished must have been. They were dealing with a microorganism that is so tiny that it can be seen only under the most powerful microscopes. They responded to a critical public need in record time and produced effective vaccines to fill that public need. Those people are really smart, and highly skilled, and dedicated and conscientious public servants. They deserve respect, and a whole lot more.

But experts are saying that we need something like 80 to 90 percent of the population to be vaccinated for the vaccines to be truly effective and make it possible for us to stamp out this damn plague. So, when 30 percent of the population absolutely refuse to be vaccinated under any circumstances, they are profoundly DISRESPECTING those noble pubic servants in the white lab coats who gave us this effective solution to this terrible health crisis.

That seems so obvious to me, that anti-vaxxers are profoundly DISRESPECTING the amazing accomplishments of those noble public servants in the white lab coats. And yet, despite how obvious it seems to me, I can't believe I haven't heard anybody make that observation.

I know that if everybody would have worn their masks and socially distanced when out in public and gotten their shots when they became available, we would have made this damn plague go away by now.

-- Ron

[ansible]

1. That might backfire if the rumors of the Wuhan lab are true

[secondwind]

2. Their obsession with the word FREEDOM is nauseating. They are mentally challenged, I think.

[cadoman]

4. freedom that disrespects the safety of others equals freedumb

[cadoman]

3. It is disrespectful and disrespectful behavior must be corrected.

That is why mandates are the only way forward. The carrot failed, now comes the stick.

[Pobeka]

5. It is important to know mRNA technology isn't new. It's been developed for about a decade.

Too many antivaxxer's use the "new" vaccine as an excuse not to trust the technology.

What we are lucky with is that this technology was mature just when we needed it. It can be adapted very fast for a microscopic threat, whether it be to target a cancer for an individual, or a virus that threatens the entire human population.