COVID Conundrum

The Schloss-Blog is tired of the lies, deceit, misinformation and disinformation out there about COVID-19 and the coronavirus in general, Delta variant notwithstanding.

So we have a few questions, thoughts and ideas.

Do you really believe we're making progress against the virus, or are we doomed to be fighting it, like the flu, maybe, forever?

Do you want your 5-11-year-old child or grandchild to get the vaccine? Is it safe for "Little Johnny" or "Little Jenny?"

Will the 66 million Americans eligible to get vaccinated ever get vaccinated? Or is their abstinence our endgame of never-ending variants, repeated surges and deaths?

Will we be wearing masks forever in certain settings to protect ourselves and others? Or will the reluctance of governors like DeSantis and Abbott continue to stymie travel plans and leave workplaces and public spaces unsafe?

Are you vaccinated? Will you be vaccinated?

Do you know someone who isn't and refuses to be? A good friend? A relative? Is that person out of your life now? And forever, perhaps?

Are you OK going to a concert? A sporting event? Even outdoors? 

Are you OK going to a gym?

Your friends or relatives who are not vaccinated, what would it take to get them vaccinated? 

A death of someone close to them? Your hospitalization, or even your death, God forbid?

Are you in favor of vaccine mandates? For employees? For airline personnel? For healthcare workers? For police and fire? For all civil servants?

Would you want to be treated by someone who is unvaccinated? Or should they lose their jobs?

For many of them, sadly, employment termination comes before vaccination.

Should teachers be vaccinated, or be forced to be tested twice a week?

Is it really someone's right to reject and protest against what gets put in their bodies? If so, where were their parents when they got mumps, measles, rubella and polio shots just so they could go to school?

I have a relative who is about to lose his job because he refuses vaccination. He works for a company that is a government contractor. He has no option. 

Should he? 

I feel badly for him, but not sorry. I have no tolerance, ZERO, for anyone isn't vaccinated. Anyone. Zero.

Yet, I have gotten on planes, my face masked, knowing full well that somewhere between one-fourth and one-third of my fellow passengers are not vaccinated.

And they're allowed to remove or lower their masks while eating or drinking.

In stores I go into, about half of people in there, maybe half, are masked. In Arizona, there's no mandate.

Statistics show conclusively that in Red or Republican states, more people contract the virus and/or die from it than in Blue or Democratically controlled states.

There are more Republican-controlled legislatures in this country than Democratic.

Even the Fox News anchors who condemn mandates work for a company that mandates vaccinations.

We are doomed.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

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