The Rude Pundit: I'm Losing My Capacity for Empathy Thanks to People Who Refuse to Get Vaccinated

[babylonsister]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2021/05/im-losing-my-capacity-for-empathy.html


The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
5/17/2021
I'm Losing My Capacity for Empathy Thanks to People Who Refuse to Get Vaccinated

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I'm fucking exhausted with the vaccine refuseniks. I'm especially exhausted with Republican refuseniks because their goddamn president, the one that made this whole situation so much worse, still brays like a drunk jackass at a cheap petting zoo about how he personally ejaculated the vaccine for everyone. Which is it, GOP? If you love Trump so much, why not take his cold, hard injection?

The same thing goes for masking. I stopped wearing a mask outdoors except in crowded places a few months ago, even before I was vaccinated, because the science said I could. Most of the time, I wear a mask just to make others feel comfortable, even in places that don't still require it around here. I'd bet that the majority of people who wear masks indoors in places like Texas or Iowa or Florida are vaccinated. I get that. I have empathy there. We just went through some scary shit that's still going on. I understand that you might be really freaked the fuck out. But there's gonna come a day where I think, "Yeah, I'm done wearing a mask if I don't have to." Probably on a day that hits 90 degrees. At some point, you either trust the vaccine or you don't. I'm Modernaed up, motherfuckers.

Of course, the refuseniks are gonna be total lying twatmites about mask-wearing, demanding that they be able to go without, even if the science says they shouldn't. Some of them have started saying the snarky, transphobic "I identify as vaccinated." To which you can only say: Okay, you dumb bitches, then when are you going to transition to vaccinated? By the way, you can get a t-shirt that says that shit. In fact, there's a whole line of anti-vax tees because of course there are.

Look, we're never going back to "normal." The pre-COVID normal doesn't exist anymore. For instance, I learned that I can wear a mask at the house of my friends who have cats, to which I am savagely allergic (please don't tell me what to try - I have). But the mask allows me to hang out, shoot the shit, do some edibles, even pet the cat. I'm not going back to normal: my eyes watering, stuffed nose, face freaking out. And my face is like the world in general. We're figuring out how to negotiate this post-pandemic world, trying to figure out what works for us.

And the assholes who won't get vaccinated are making it that much fucking harder.

[onecaliberal]

1. I can relate. Why should we care about their lives when

They do not care about ours.

[634-5789]

2. You gotta do YOU.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. You can control only your own behavior, so at some point letting this tension go is, tbh, a relief.

[Neema]

4. IDGAF what happens to anti-vaxxers. My problem is what they're doing to

increase the chances that some new variant will run amok that our vaccines aren't as effective at combating. If I fucking get sick because of their selfish, ignorant asses, I'm going to be seeing red.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. I lost it some time ago

The only ones I feel badly for are the health givers.