Your 'personal choice' not to get COVID vaccine is putting our 'healthcare heroes' at risk

[Nevilledog]

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John FitzGerald
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We called them heroes a year ago. Now, 18 months in, they’re exhausted, battling burnout and a feeling of futility. Imagine the emotional toll for healthcare workers seeing people die day after day knowing so many of the deaths could have been prevented.

Your ‘personal choice’ not to get COVID vaccine is putting our ‘healthcare heroes’ at risk |...
Getting the COVID vaccine is not a “personal choice.” It never was, really, but the onslaught of cases fueled by the delta variant has removed any doubt.
miamiherald.com
8:50 AM · Sep 7, 2021

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article253954748.html

Getting the COVID vaccine is not a “personal choice.” It never was, really, but the onslaught of cases fueled by the delta variant has removed any doubt.

And yet that’s not what Florida’s governor would have you believe. On Friday, Gov. DeSantis actually uttered these incredible — and incorrect — words about the vaccine: “It’s about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn’t impact me or anyone else.”

Doesn’t impact anyone else? Talk about a profile in selfishness. Almost 46,000 have died of COVID in his state since the pandemic began. Too bad we can’t ask the thousands who have died since vaccines became available if they wished everyone around them had gotten vaccinated.

This governor already has gone to war against school boards and parents who want to keep kids safer in schools with mask mandates. He’s fought against cruise lines that want to preserve their businesses by making sure their customers can stay COVID-free on ships, by requiring vaccines. Now he’s dismissing the role of vaccines in reducing community spread.

And it’s the opposite of what he says. COVID’s spread actually is a community problem, and solving it starts with vaccines.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. I hate these "personal choice" arguments-- your personal choices are always...

severely limited by the need to have a reasonably ordered society.

See how well your "personal choice" works at not stopping at red lights, or ignoring other traffic rules.

Or "personal choice" to use leaded paint and asbestos insulation.

[roamer65]

2. It's that selfish, spoiled brat version of "libertarianism" again.

Me, me, me, me…

I worked with one of these MoFo’s in the past and had all I could do not to beat him to death.

This joke of a country is full of it.

[SheltieLover]

3. Docs & nurses are quitting & suiciding!

Willfully unvaxed should not be allowed to break healthcare, schools, & govt.

This needs to stop!