I found this article while surfing today, I’m An ICU Doctor and I Cannot Believe The Things Unvaccinated Patients Are Telling Me. Coming from a doc UCLA, I’m sure she’s seen and suffered her fair share of hell. But the part that gets me is where she wraps her article.
I thought when this pandemic began that we were all in this fight together, engaged in a war against a common enemy. Now, I painfully realize: Perhaps we were never on the same side and we never had a common enemy. Perhaps the war has been among ourselves all along. We have won many battles but unvaccinated America is choosing to let COVID win the war.
She’s spot on, and while I encourage everyone here to read the full article that part sticks in my mind. “Choosing to let COVID win the war.”
So far in this pandemic, I’ve had bartenders tell me they don’t trust the guidance because it keeps changing, but that they won’t get vaccinated because they don’t trust the vaccine’s emergency use. I’ve had medical professionals tell me that they refuse to get the vaccine, to wear masks outside of their employment, because they believe the pandemic has been politicized. Coworkers keep asking why they have to revert to previous measures when they refuse to take a simple step to help end this.
At this point, I’m venting, but either I let it out here or it’ll boil and steam until it explodes. Dr. Neville is right, they are letting COVID win this war. They’re letting it win because they refuse to accept responsibility for anyone else outside their own narrow world. The more people that die, the more that’s available for them. One of my coworkers just bought a camper, but at the rate things are going he won’t be able to use it. I’ve had to endure coworkers that I can’t avoid bitching about science that a fifth grader can understand that turns out to inconvenience their lives. All while they refuse to take any steps to help bring the virus to heel. Because they refuse to get an injection, when they’ve already had so many vaccinations since childhood that they’d have several of the Gates’ microchips they scoff about a dozen times over.
“I’m at a loss.”
I’m getting sick of trying to play at being understanding. There’s a vaccine, it works, and we can use it. And instead we’re living in a country where people would rather believe they have a right to spread a disease to infect others than get a free fucking shot. Where they’d rather die than accept, as one brilliant Florida man called the vaccines, “The Mark of the Beast”.
“I’m at a loss.”
I can’t be the only one getting sick of being told we have to try and treat these people as rational. That somehow people who refuse to live in objective reality have any say in how we’re supposed to run this country. How we’re supposed to approach living. Vaccines have been around for over two hundred years, with “variolation” stretching back to the 1000s in ancient China. The fact that we have people who keep claiming they don’t trust it is, to paraphrase Robin Williams, “Proof that Darwin was wrong!”
This might be presumptive, but I feel like Dr. Neville. Right now, I’m at a loss. I can’t explain it anymore in any way other than embracing some kind of sick, twisted nihilism. People can’t accept that things are gonna have to change, so instead they’d rather go down kicking and screaming and knocking down every block in the sandbox. They are toddlers, demanding they be treated like an adult because, what, they found mommy and daddy’s clothes and are trying to imitate the way they’ve seen their parents get what they want? Stomp and shout and demand that they get it?
I know I’m not the first person to be thinking this. Every week I see it on this site, people who can’t take this anymore. Who are sick of being told they’re the unreasonable ones, or that they’re the ones harassing anti-vaxxers for pointing out the obvious.
We are all, together, at a loss.