The Rude Pundit: Why We're So Fucking Angry at the Unvaccinated

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2021/07/why-were-so-fucking-angry-at.html

One night long ago, I saw a small cat in an underpass during a downpour in Louisiana. I was driving home in the dark when my headlights caught a glimpse of an animal that was cowering on the sidewalk as the puddle down there started to become a flood. Part of me wanted to keep driving, but another part said, "No. Turn around, asshole," and I listened to the part that didn't wanna think that I let something drown. So I went back. It was late, like about two in the morning, and few other cars were on the road. I stopped in the underpass, railroad tracks above me, and I got out. There I saw the cat, just a bit older than a kitten, and I approached it, using as soothing a voice as I could. But when I got close, it hissed and clawed at me. What they fuck was I doing? "Goddamnit," I thought because I knew I couldn't give in to the voice in my head that said, "Fuck that cat. Go home." I went back to the car and found a large towel in the trunk.

When I approached the cat again, it hissed, spit, did that weird growl-meow thing, and tried to claw me. I sat on the sidewalk with the towel and waited, talking gently. I knew it was wet and freaked out, but I wanted to help it. At one point, I reached out to try to pet it, but the little shit just fucking ripped my hand, and really, I kind of wanted to kill it myself right then. Instead, I tried again to soothe it, but it wasn't happening, and the water was gonna be up to where the cat was gonna have to swim for it and probably not make it. So, screw it, I covered my hands in the towel, reached out quickly, and grabbed the damn cat, wrapping it in the towel while it screamed and tried to claw. "Stop it! I'm trying to fucking help you!" I said, obviously expecting the cat to understand me. I put it in the passenger seat where I could hold the towel closed. Yeah, I know the cat was panicking, but it was this or probably drowning or getting run over or something other horrible thing. Eventually, through cat magic, it got out of the towel and was free in the car. Fortunately, it didn't attack my face. It just hissed and leaped onto the floor in the back, hiding under the seat. I stopped at a gas station to get something for my bleeding hand. When I got out of the car, the cat leaped out and ran under the barely open garage door. As it was running away, I muttered, "You're welcome, you dumb fuck." I don't have strong opinions on cats in general one way or the other. I mean, I'm allergic as hell, but I don't hate them or anything. However, I hated that cat, and I would have saved it again if I had to.

I thought about this short, silly story as I read again and again about how we the vaccinated, we who believe that the vaccine is not only safe but is the only way out of the coronavirus clusterfuck, we who want everyone to get vaccinated need to reason with the willfully vaccinated (who are different than those who can't get it because of some medical condition or are too young; I'm also leaving out those who are in communities that are underserved by the health care system, so, really, basically, I'm talking about Republicans), need to be more understanding, and need to calmly explain the vaccine to them.

But you know what? There are a fuckton of us who think that we had months of understanding. And where the fuck did that get us?

*snip*

[The Magistrate]

1. He's A Good Man, Ma'am

I for one am damned sick and tired of being asked to 'understand' people who wear 'fuck your feelings' tee-shirts.

The thing about the 'golden rule' is that you can't help but obey it. How you treat others shows how you wish to be treated, displays exactly how you feel anyone, yourself included, ought to be treated by others. If someone treats others with cruel disrespect, I accept that in kindness it is my duty, whatever my personal inclination, to treat them as they have requested....

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R

As always!

[niyad]

3. KNR

[alfredo]

4. Damn good story

[Joinfortmill]

5. Its the kids I worry for.

[AlexSFCA]

6. totally

couldn’t care less about unvaccinated adults - the world is so much safer if they’re dead. It’s kids, I am worried about . Not just the ones currently not eligible for vaccine (under 13) but the even those who are eligible but dumb parents won’t consent.

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. K&R

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. K&R

[viva la]

9. Weird experience--

Clicked on this story from the "Latest" page.

It opened a new page-- "Do You Stand With Trump?" Flashing YES in orange.
I tried to close-- Flashing: WARNING! You have not responded!

Went back to the Latest page, clicked, no problem this time.

Anyone have a problem like this?

[littlemissmartypants]

10. A dollar will buy you a star.

With a star, you won't see ANY advertisements for anything.

So to answer your question, I have a star, so no. Anyone else who has a star will also not see advertisements, so I feel confident in answering, "no" for them, too.

Anyone who doesn't have a star, like you, will see advertisements, so yes, it has possibly happened to them, too.

[viva la]

12. Thanks, I'll get the star

But this didn't seem like an ad as it resisted closing. Ads are getting pretty invasive of course.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. The ads make it impossible for me to read the pages.

It's like having a bad case of ADD. I stayed completely confused. So I had to get a star.

[wnylib]

11. At this point, we persist in trying

to get the unvaccinated to get shots, not for themselves, but for the sake of humanity. We do it not to save them from themselves, but to prevent hospitals from getting too overwhelmed to treat other medical emergencies. We do it to protect children. We do it to prevent worse variants from developing. We do it to prevent the health care systems in the world from being overwhelmed in the future from the permanent damages caused by covid infections.

There is a hard core of resisters who would never vaccinate unless they were slipped a knock out drug in a drink and given shots while passed out.

But there are others who are simply fearful of the vaccines because of all the disinformation they have encountered.

I heard on NPR about an experiment tried in one community where open discussion forums were held by a health department official for people who had questions and concerns about vaccines. Medical people were available to answer questions, but the most persuasive answers came from people in the group who had personal experiences of being infected or losing loved ones to covid. After having a few of those open discussion forums, the vaccination rate in the community went up.

For communities where the infection rate is too high to meet in person, local radio and TV call in programs to a panel of health experts can do the same thing.

We can do this for ourselves, for our own personal and selfish reasons, even when we are annoyed with the unvaccinated because our own present and future well being depend on it.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. I'm surprised you didn't mention the emergency use factor.

[Martin Eden]

13. One of RP's Best!

The dumbfuck anti-vaxers deserve to die,, but we need to save them to save evrryone.