We have never lived in a one tier society...

[Soph0571]

Listening to the radio and the discussion has been about vaccine passports and using them as a tool to manage public health in enclosed and busy spaces. As in, if you want to go clubbing – prove you are fully vaccinated or no deal. Of course, the Anti-Vax crowd are losing what is left of their minds over this. Obvs their selfish right wing loon rights are more important that the rights of the vulnerable who cannot get vaccinated for health. Or of the Nurses and Doctors who have to deal with the fall out of wave after wave. Never mind them – they have seen a you tube video and world order, 5G, Nazis and end times, or something. And now these very selfish people are being told choices have consequences. You can choose not to get vaccinated and society can choose not to let you access shared spaces.

Anyway, the anti-vax crowd are outraged, claiming the very idea of vaccine passports would create a two-tier system in society. As it was pointed out on the radio this morning, when have we ever lived in a one tier society? There are multiple layers in any society, of course there are. How much wealth you have creates access to privileged spaces. Hell, there are golf clubs if you are black the idea of being able to purchase membership is almost laughable. There are gentleman’s clubs where women are not allowed join. Of course, the people who are now losing their privileged wigs over the vaccine passport are the same people who have benefited mostly from the white patriarchal privilege reinforced by the multi-tier system in which we all reside. This should just be one more tier, right? This is an even better tier than the vast majority we have in society. This one is for the benefit of the community and quite frankly the idiots that would cheer comparing doctors and nurses to nazi war criminals are not welcome in polite society anyway. We need to make sure they have a special tier all too themselves, well away from the rest of us.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. You are absolutely right

A quick story. A friend of mine has two boys and was raising them alone. (Ex-wife was a real 'winner'. Nuff said.) He bought them anything and everything. (They would constantly do stuff on their gameing system that would get that unit banned, and he would just go out and get them a new one. I bet there were five PS3s, a few Wii, and many X-Boxes in the house back then.) So when one of both of them would do something wrong, he would take away their phones and other electronics. The problem was, he always caved in, usually before two days had gone by. Then he would tell us about how he felt they needed them in case they had to call him over this or that. Reminding him that the school had a phone that they could easily use in case of emergencies did nothing to dissuade him. The US is like that. A lot of bluster about 'making this or than happen', but then it seems to fold into a wet noodle. If the intent is to take care of these idiots who won't get a vaccine because they are dumb and dangerous, then make some real consequences and make them stick. Not holding my breath...