Like many others out there, I don't much care for being forced to do something and I'd fight for our right to make our own decisions on this issue or any other. However, I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the past 2 months that have told me they won't get vaccinated, because it violates their rights as an "American." Virtually all of these people then went off on some sort of patriotic ramble as an attempt to justify their decision for not getting the vaccine. Somehow, I just don't get it and using patriotism as an excuse for not making an intelligent and practical choice is just beyond my ability to understand. While the government has tried to mandate vaccinations for all Federal employees, it is still the choice of those employees as to whether or not to comply. It's just like a private company deciding to require vaccinations and is well within their rights to do so. This is not an infringement on anyone's rights! While it may not be popular, everyone still has the choice whether to comply or not, it just makes the stakes a bit higher when it requires someone to give up their job, etc. if they don't comply (and that's exactly why they are doing it). Anyway, my point is that the choice is still there, they are simply applying pressure to get as many as possible to take the vaccine. Right or wrong, it is well within their rights to do so and not getting your vaccination for "Patriotic" reasons is simply not a valid arguement! Flame me if you want, but this whole thing is just stupid and I don't do well with stupid!

Like many others out there, I don't much care for being forced to do something and I'd fight for our right to make our own decisions on this issue or any other. However, I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the past 2 months that have told me they won't get vaccinated, because it violates their rights as an "American." Virtually all of these people then went off on some sort of patriotic ramble as an attempt to justify their decision for not getting the vaccine. Somehow, I just don't get it and using patriotism as an excuse for not making an intelligent and practical choice is just beyond my ability to understand. While the government has tried to mandate vaccinations for all Federal employees, it is still the choice of those employees as to whether or not to comply. It's just like a private company deciding to require vaccinations and is well within their rights to do so. This is not an infringement on anyone's rights! While it may not be popular, everyone still has the choice whether to comply or not, it just makes the stakes a bit higher when it requires someone to give up their job, etc. if they don't comply (and that's exactly why they are doing it). Anyway, my point is that the choice is still there, they are simply applying pressure to get as many as possible to take the vaccine. Right or wrong, it is well within their rights to do so and not getting your vaccination for "Patriotic" reasons is simply not a valid arguement! Flame me if you want, but this whole thing is just stupid and I don't do well with stupid!

Like many others out there, I don't much care for being forced to do something and I'd fight for our right to make our own decisions on this issue or any other. However, I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the past 2 months that have told me they won't get vaccinated, because it violates their rights as an "American." Virtually all of these people then went off on some sort of patriotic ramble as an attempt to justify their decision for not getting the vaccine. Somehow, I just don't get it and using patriotism as an excuse for not making an intelligent and practical choice is just beyond my ability to understand. While the government has tried to mandate vaccinations for all Federal employees, it is still the choice of those employees as to whether or not to comply. It's just like a private company deciding to require vaccinations and is well within their rights to do so. This is not an infringement on anyone's rights! While it may not be popular, everyone still has the choice whether to comply or not, it just makes the stakes a bit higher when it requires someone to give up their job, etc. if they don't comply (and that's exactly why they are doing it). Anyway, my point is that the choice is still there, they are simply applying pressure to get as many as possible to take the vaccine. Right or wrong, it is well within their rights to do so and not getting your vaccination for "Patriotic" reasons is simply not a valid arguement! Flame me if you want, but this whole thing is just stupid and I don't do well with stupid!

Like many others out there, I don't much care for being forced to do something and I'd fight for our right to make our own decisions on this issue or any other. However, I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the past 2 months that have told me they won't get vaccinated, because it violates their rights as an "American." Virtually all of these people then went off on some sort of patriotic ramble as an attempt to justify their decision for not getting the vaccine. Somehow, I just don't get it and using patriotism as an excuse for not making an intelligent and practical choice is just beyond my ability to understand. While the government has tried to mandate vaccinations for all Federal employees, it is still the choice of those employees as to whether or not to comply. It's just like a private company deciding to require vaccinations and is well within their rights to do so. This is not an infringement on anyone's rights! While it may not be popular, everyone still has the choice whether to comply or not, it just makes the stakes a bit higher when it requires someone to give up their job, etc. if they don't comply (and that's exactly why they are doing it). Anyway, my point is that the choice is still there, they are simply applying pressure to get as many as possible to take the vaccine. Right or wrong, it is well within their rights to do so and not getting your vaccination for "Patriotic" reasons is simply not a valid arguement! Flame me if you want, but this whole thing is just stupid and I don't do well with stupid!

Like many others out there, I don't much care for being forced to do something and I'd fight for our right to make our own decisions on this issue or any other. However, I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the past 2 months that have told me they won't get vaccinated, because it violates their rights as an "American." Virtually all of these people then went off on some sort of patriotic ramble as an attempt to justify their decision for not getting the vaccine. Somehow, I just don't get it and using patriotism as an excuse for not making an intelligent and practical choice is just beyond my ability to understand. While the government has tried to mandate vaccinations for all Federal employees, it is still the choice of those employees as to whether or not to comply. It's just like a private company deciding to require vaccinations and is well within their rights to do so. This is not an infringement on anyone's rights! While it may not be popular, everyone still has the choice whether to comply or not, it just makes the stakes a bit higher when it requires someone to give up their job, etc. if they don't comply (and that's exactly why they are doing it). Anyway, my point is that the choice is still there, they are simply applying pressure to get as many as possible to take the vaccine. Right or wrong, it is well within their rights to do so and not getting your vaccination for "Patriotic" reasons is simply not a valid arguement! Flame me if you want, but this whole thing is just stupid and I don't do well with stupid!

Yes, you're right on this. What the antivaxxers don't acknowledge is there are many things on which you don't have rights to choose. You can't drive a car without a license; you can't fly to another country without a passport; you can't own a gun without a permit. In Canada at least, your kids can't attend school without being vaccinated against things like Smallpox, polio, measles, among others. (How do they think the world has eradicated those diseases?) They should understand that if their choice is to not get the vaccine, then they should isolate themselves from the rest of us who have. Also, when they get Covid they should not expect our overworked health care workers to care for them in hospitals.

Yes, it will be moved there soon enough.

Headline today - a man in Alabama died from heart problems because he could not get into a hospital. They tried forty-three hospitals - no ICU beds available. Shortly after he was able to find a hospital bed, he passed away.

"...was eventually transferred to a Mississippi hospital about 200 miles away, died at 73 on Sept. 1 — three days shy of his birthday."

Hospital beds are filling up with people who exercised their American freedom of choice and chose not to get a vaccine that would keep them out of the hospital. If I ran a hospital, all the un-vaccinated Covid patients would be in a tent in the parking lot - or home watching TV.