If We Don't Let Unvaccinated Health Care Workers Infect Sick People, Did We Ever Love Them At All?

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/if-we-dont-let-unvaccinated-health-care-workers-infect-sick-people-did-we-ever-love-them-at-all

Professional terrible person Laura Ingraham usually scares her Fox News audience senseless about issues that mostly don't exist, like migrant caravans and Black zombie hordes attacking our cities. However, she keeps insisting that the COVID-19 pandemic is no big thing. The liberal media and tyrannical medical community are just lying to you for ... well, that part's less clear.

Last night, on her white power hour, Ingraham showed clips from March 2020 when politicians and the press explained that social distancing and lockdowns were necessary to slow COVID-19's spread and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. She mocks this sentiment now from a distance of 18 months but in reality, New York hospitals had experienced an "apocalyptic coronavirus surge" by mid-April.

It slowly becomes clear what Ingraham's angle is here: The godless Left “claimed" to love frontline health care workers until we ditched them like our geeky friend in high school. We've suddenly turned on health care workers because we want them to get vaccinated against the same virus that they valiantly fought last year. This doesn't seem like an unreasonable request, but Ingraham disagrees.

INGRAHAM: But now that some nurses and first responders are resisting the vaccine mandates, it becomes clear that those emotional words meant nothing. Now that healthcare workers threaten the Left's COVID power grab, they've gone from frontline heroes to public health menaces.

What's actually happened is that hospitals are setting basic health standards for their employees, so that their staff and patients don't catch a now-preventable illness. These vaccine mandates are consistent with caring about “frontline heroes," most of whom don't want to die stupid deaths (my least favorite kind).

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[Walleye]

1. They are really reaching with that argument of "power grab"

Like what? We liberals just stay up at night trying to find someway to control the lives of people we really don’t even want to know exist. I certainly don’t want power over anybody. When I was younger I thought it was a power grab to make me go to school and brush my teeth, but I have grown up.

[Hortensis]

2. Lol. Great, Wonkette!

[vanlassie]

3. Their stunted emotional growth is always on display.

They use the reasoning of children.

[Iggo]

4. They use the reasoning of children to make their audience think like children.

It’s a feature, not a bug.

[peggysue2]

5. Bingo!

[Midnight Writer]

6. Remember when Republicans condemned Cuomo for putting Covid patients in nursing homes?

They were very concerned then about exposing the vulnerable residents of those homes to people who were carrying the virus.

I actually think they had a good point.

Now they have pivoted 180 degrees and are outraged that we are NOT putting the helpless residents at greater risk.