It is now time to treat the unvaccinated much as we once did lepers and TB patients. ISOLATION

[Stinky The Clown]

The key to the pandemic is obvious to anyone with enough brains to chew.

I am totally out of fucks to give for these people.

How about this?

Chant repeatedly LOCK THEM DOWN!

No in person schools for the vax-eligible children of these morons.

No flying. No public transit of any type.

No admittance to any federal building and any state building where the governor and legislature are smart.

No working in any job requiring close human interaction. No working, for example, in a fire staton where they sleep in an open dorm.

No treatment at any but covid-designated hospitals.

No attending churches, theaters, sporting events or other congregate settings with penalties for such institutions that fail to follow the law.

No free medical care for Covid related illnesses.

Get faxed and wait until your immunity kicks in and you can rejoice polite society.



So, no mask or vax mandates. Just isolate these pariahs.

[LexVegas]

1. I don't see how that can be accomplished. It is a shockingly high number of idiots. nt

[Delphinus]

2. Way

too true.

[LexVegas]

3. I live in a rednecky part of Virginia. They are ostracizing us. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Actually, what was mentioned in the OP is easy to accomplish

No vax? Dept of Transportation sets out emergency rules. No airline ticket. no bus ticket. No train ticket.

No vax? Smart governors set out new emergency school rules. Home schooling for you.

No vax? Feds and smart governors set out new emergency health policies. No admittance to any but designated hospitals.

Get the idea?

[empedocles]

4. Or at least let the no-vax wait in lin behind the vacinnated in hospitals

[Enter stage left]

5. It's long past time, we've been as forgiving as we can...

but start announcing this NOW!

"YOU HAVE UNTIL APRIL 1ST TO BE FULLY VACCINATED OR FACE THESE SANCTIONS"

Then show all of the above threats and leave it up to the idiots to make the decision.

INCLUDING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, AND ALL PUBLIC OR ELECTED OFFICES.

[madville]

6. Near impossible since there is no clear definition of what

“Fully vaccinated” is and it will be constantly shifting. Is an elderly person that got three booster shots considered just as equally vaccinated as a person that got a single J&J dose 12 months ago? I read today that like only 30% of eligible seniors have received booster shots.

And if Omicron infects vaccinated people at a rate equal to that of the unvaccinated, does that negate any effects of isolation? Or would it be more seen as a punishment rather than mitigation at that point?

Then what about people with legitimate medical or religious exemptions?

[Stinky The Clown]

16. No clear definition? Really?

Don't hang on the word "isolation. It was not the central idea of the OP. See post #15, above.

[cachukis]

7. There is much wisdom to your perspective.

But the stupidity exists on so many levels. We naturally gravitate to whom we agree. The definition of stupidity, however, is generally moral.(Bonhoeffer). It comes down to that. Tolerate hypocracy as well as you can, or fight, the loss of all wars.

But they are coming for us. Jesus didn't last very long.

Since physiology pushes us to survive and we don't like to kill for jollie's, we opt for diplomacy. Let's hope it fixes stupidity.

You laugh.

[Dial H For Hero]

8. Question: How exactly does one isolate over 100 million people?

Utterly impossible.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Oh good lord. Read post #15, above.

And don't be quite so literal when reading ideas. Literal isolation was not the central theme of the OP. Social isolation, perhaps. But not literal. As to the chant suggested, it was a suggestion for a chant, not a policy proposal.

[iemanja]

9. Not unless they are infected.

Those quarantines you speak of were for people with disease, not people who hadn't gotten vaccinated.

[LisaL]

10. Where would you isolate them?

NT

[iemanja]

11. As we do now

In hospitals and in their homes. I would not support rounding people up. That's draconian.

I do support laws making it illegal to knowingly expose others to COVID.

[LisaL]

13. We are running out of hospital beds.

NT

[iemanja]

14. What do you suggest?

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Please point to where I used the word "quarantine"

Please see also post #16, above.

[viva la]

12. There's a retirement village outside my town-

Old red-brick buildings, long balconies overlooking the lawn.

Turns out it used to be the tuberculosis quarantine sanitorium, where you went (free of charge!) if you got TB. You either got better or died there.

Very pretty grounds. There was a wonderful Vittorio de Sica film about a factory worker who gets TB and has to be sent to a hospital in the Alps (gorgeous, of course), and she meets a fellow patient and falls in love....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069823/reviews

[Pathwalker]

19. It wasn't isolation against TB in Arizona in the 50's, it was quarantine.

If you were exposed to someone with it, you were put in quarantine for 30 days. If you had it, and didn't follow the rules, you were placed in a sanatorium. I know this from deeply personal experience - my Grandparents, my brother & I were placed in quarantine for 30 days, the day after my mother's funeral. 10 days were added when my brother broke quarantine and was caught jumping over the fence.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. This thread is about the unvaccinated, not so much the infected.

Exposure protocols are a related topic but not so much the subject of this thread.

Your history must have difficult. I'm sorry you and your family had to endure that for something out of your control.

Staying unvaccinated is a conscious choice.