Will You Take the Mandatory COVID Vax?
Now the chatter is starting on the national news front with a reporter who grew up right near us - Lester Holt. I think there will be a move to make COVID vaccination mandatory in the very near future. My question to my fellow Objectivists is, "Will you submit?"
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If you are old enough to remember the military draft which had mandatory physical exam resulting in fine for service, 4F unsatisfactory for service, and other considerations. Some went to Canada which upset many Americans and others accepted prison sentences as punishment.
I do not want to see a mandatory requirement for vaccination. enough who voluntary take the shots should be enough, bringing the disease to an acceptable rate of about 30000+ deaths a year as with influenza.
The preliminary estimate for US deaths for 2020 is 8880 per day, which is about the usual increase from 2019.
Me dino is 73 with Type 2 Diabetes, I don't want to catch that crap and I trust Trump, who is not making me submit to anything.
Allosaur short for Allosaurus means "different lizard." The name kinda fits me as the nonconformist of the day.
Now if Biden steals in and tells me I have to submit, that will be a problem.
The difficulty is how the Covid Vaccine card relates to travel / flights.
Proof of having taken the vaccine shot may be required for international flights.
In that case, that could put a snag in my plans to get to the Himalayas for adventure trekking.
Of course, I could always opt for a slow boat -- but I expect that passage on large boats will similarly require the Covid Card.
In somewhat related news, I wanted to buy an AR last summer. The gun store told me that I would need to fill out a bunch of papers and be on a wait list, etc... However -- If I bought the upper and lower separately, and they were sold as such, I could put the two pieces together with the provided pins, also buy a box of 556 and head from the store directly to the range and start shooting. And so, we have the private marketplace always being a step or two ahead of the State. I expect there to be similar means of getting around the Covid Card when it is implemented.
I have also heard a lot of people on the left say they won't take the "Trump Vaccine".
The vaccine is a "NO!"
If you would take it given it was not mandatory, then you should still want to take it but not because it is mandatory. That is not "submitting".