Call me one of the intolerant. That's what I am. I will not coddle willful ignorance anymore.

[kpete]

I’M DONE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND OR EDUCATE THE UNVACCINATED –
by: Charles Blow
..............

There was a point, earlier on in the pandemic, when vaccines were still scarce, when I tried to be tolerant with the holdouts, tried not to shame them, tried not to be angry with them, tried to allow them time to educate themselves about the benefits of getting vaccinated.

But that time has long since passed for me. Call me one of the intolerant. That’s what I am. I will not coddle willful ignorance anymore. I will not indulge the fool’s errand of “I’m still doing my own research” anymore, either.

This virus has already killed nearly 800,000 Americans and infected nearly 50 million. We are now averaging about 120,000 new cases a day.

This virus is deadly and unrelenting. The only way out of this situation, for our country and the world, is through the vaccines. We must dramatically shrink the number of people vulnerable to the virus — or else we risk allowing our population to act as a petri dish for the growth of variants.

https://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2021/12/08/opinion-im-done-trying-to-understand-or-educate-the-unvaccinated-the-new-york-times/?shared=email&msg=fail

[Ocelot II]

1. Link to the Charles Blow piece:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/unvaccinated-people-anti-vaxxers.html

[kpete]

2. Thanks Ocelot II

I used this one:
https://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2021/12/08/opinion-im-done-trying-to-understand-or-educate-the-unvaccinated-the-new-york-times/?shared=email&msg=fail

have a great day!
kp

[Nevilledog]

3. NYT piece with no paywall

https://archive.ph/6qkja





I have a NYT subscription so I'm not sure if this is paywalled.

[Traildogbob]

4. Shhhhhhoush!🤫

I’m bagging up black dirt and on My way to billionaire avenue. Do not discourage my customers.
Thinking of offering white dirt for the you know who crowd.

[Ohio Joe]

5. I've been there for some time now...

There is no talking or educating them, they refuse to understand. My best hope is they commit suicide by covid quickly so as to inflict the least amount of harm to the rest of us.

[Hellyann]

6. I second that

I am really struggling with this but I have to keep my mouth shut or I'll get in trouble again over it. My co workers have more rights not following health mandates than I have following them. I have to walk into a building every day where every co worker except one is flipping the bird to the Health Mandate that our small rural Alaskan town city council voted in. All they have to do is where masks in the communal areas of our office - bathroom and windowless cave kitchen. Do you think that the ladies in my office could give me one stall out of two that they aren't sitting in spreading their damn breath? Hell NO! Even my sense of well being! I might as well ask them to go to Normandy. I'm 57, hypertensive with a 85 yr old mother in the senior center in town. I'm counting the minutes until I retire so I can choose the people I get to be around and it will be Americans that have/can/will pull up their big boy panties and do everything they can for humanity!

[Tommymac]

7. May the USA last that long. I am betting it does but only if we work hard.

Assume you can retire in 6 years...it is going to be a lot of hard work to beat back Authoritarianism here to make sure that Our Constitution makes it through the next 6 years.

And welcome to DU!

[BlueJac]

8. That happened to me a few months ago!

I'm with you on this!

[Kaleva]

9. So how does Charles Blow intend on getting the antivaxxers vaccinated?

[3catwoman3]

10. Willful ignorance combined arrogance is a...

...really dangerous combination.

[calimary]

11. I wind up with the same instant reaction:

Okay, fine. Don’t get vaccinated. Get sick and die then.

[Texaswitchy]

12. The grown adults should know better.

Get your damn shots and we could end this.

Rachael was talking them eating, drinking, and bathing in landfill dirt.

How stupid can one be.

Get sick and die.

I feel for the medical workers.

People like my house mate who almost died from her simple surgery being but off because of lack of beds.
Thanks to my father political activity I had someone to call in Washington who pulled some strings.
Thanks Dad.

No to hell with these anti-vax types.