I have the same frustrations as the author, though not the same experience of dealing with patients. Among my vaccinated co-workers, the feeling of frustration and anger over the unvaccinated is...
I have the same frustrations as the author, though not the same experience of dealing with patients. Among my vaccinated co-workers, the feeling of frustration and anger over the unvaccinated is palpable. For me it stems from the constant barrage of being told by people not getting the vaccine that it's their right and their freedom to not take it, but they just refuse to grasp the idea that I now have to live with their choices, and those choices negatively affect my life, and the lives of my friends and family.
The willingly unvaccinated have such an arrogant, obstinate, selfish view on the state of the world, and it's pushed me to the point of gladly saying let them all just drop dead on their own. And I realize how terrible that is to say, but I'm just so tired of it.
Maybe we should start lighting up cigarettes and blow it in their faces. "What? It's my right and freedom to smoke. So what if you have to deal with the consequences?" I am joking, but also...
Maybe we should start lighting up cigarettes and blow it in their faces.
"What? It's my right and freedom to smoke. So what if you have to deal with the consequences?"
I am joking, but also running out of better ideas.
I don't think it's too terrible to want people to suffer the consequences of their decisions. Especially when those decisions are incredibly selfish and putting all of us at risk. Personally I am...
I don't think it's too terrible to want people to suffer the consequences of their decisions. Especially when those decisions are incredibly selfish and putting all of us at risk.
Personally I am increasingly of the opinion that if people want to choose not to participate in a modern, developed society that's OK but they should also have to lose all the benefits of being in that society. Want internet access? Get the jab. Want a driving license? Get the jab. Want clean drinking water? Get. the. fucking. jab.
Want to die young of a preventable disease because it's your choice and you saw a youtube video saying a vaccine would make you magnetic? Fine, but you have to go and live in a shack in the woods and hunt (no guns, they're for post-vaccine societies) and gather and barter for your food. You don't get to half-commit to living as if it's the Middle Ages, it should be all or nothing. Then we'll see who is really committed to this idiocy.
I know this doesn't add anything to the conversation, but I got a chuckle out of your username in relation to this comment. It's definitely something ol' grimey would have also complained about.
I know this doesn't add anything to the conversation, but I got a chuckle out of your username in relation to this comment. It's definitely something ol' grimey would have also complained about.
Spouse just had a short-notice heart valve replacement, so we've been extra-cautious the last few weeks, masking and staying home even though we've had the full course of mRNA vaccines. The...
Spouse just had a short-notice heart valve replacement, so we've been extra-cautious the last few weeks, masking and staying home even though we've had the full course of mRNA vaccines. The hospital staff generally appreciated that we're doing everything we can to ensure their amazing efforts aren't wasted, and we heard a lot of "I'm so exhausted, I can't handle another COVID wave". And yet one of the cardiac ICU nurses was still waffling about where she stood on vaccinations.
Now I'm dealing with drama at work2 (the weekend winery job) because an anti-vaxxer (insert all the right-wing nonsense you care to think of for the details) couple we work with got COVID. No one wants to work with them until they're genuinely testing negative (they've already been caught out lying about their COVID status), have their shots, and will wear masks. It's also completely unreasonable to expect our customers to bear this exposure.
Local schools and county commission have their own drama about mask requirements, and who in the health department can say what to whom, respectively. I get why health care workers just want to say "have your freedom and consequences, it's not my problem anymore."
I have the same frustrations as the author, though not the same experience of dealing with patients. Among my vaccinated co-workers, the feeling of frustration and anger over the unvaccinated is palpable. For me it stems from the constant barrage of being told by people not getting the vaccine that it's their right and their freedom to not take it, but they just refuse to grasp the idea that I now have to live with their choices, and those choices negatively affect my life, and the lives of my friends and family.
The willingly unvaccinated have such an arrogant, obstinate, selfish view on the state of the world, and it's pushed me to the point of gladly saying let them all just drop dead on their own. And I realize how terrible that is to say, but I'm just so tired of it.
Maybe we should start lighting up cigarettes and blow it in their faces.
"What? It's my right and freedom to smoke. So what if you have to deal with the consequences?"
I am joking, but also running out of better ideas.
I don't think it's too terrible to want people to suffer the consequences of their decisions. Especially when those decisions are incredibly selfish and putting all of us at risk.
Personally I am increasingly of the opinion that if people want to choose not to participate in a modern, developed society that's OK but they should also have to lose all the benefits of being in that society. Want internet access? Get the jab. Want a driving license? Get the jab. Want clean drinking water? Get. the. fucking. jab.
Want to die young of a preventable disease because it's your choice and you saw a youtube video saying a vaccine would make you magnetic? Fine, but you have to go and live in a shack in the woods and hunt (no guns, they're for post-vaccine societies) and gather and barter for your food. You don't get to half-commit to living as if it's the Middle Ages, it should be all or nothing. Then we'll see who is really committed to this idiocy.
I know this doesn't add anything to the conversation, but I got a chuckle out of your username in relation to this comment. It's definitely something ol' grimey would have also complained about.
Spouse just had a short-notice heart valve replacement, so we've been extra-cautious the last few weeks, masking and staying home even though we've had the full course of mRNA vaccines. The hospital staff generally appreciated that we're doing everything we can to ensure their amazing efforts aren't wasted, and we heard a lot of "I'm so exhausted, I can't handle another COVID wave". And yet one of the cardiac ICU nurses was still waffling about where she stood on vaccinations.
Now I'm dealing with drama at work2 (the weekend winery job) because an anti-vaxxer (insert all the right-wing nonsense you care to think of for the details) couple we work with got COVID. No one wants to work with them until they're genuinely testing negative (they've already been caught out lying about their COVID status), have their shots, and will wear masks. It's also completely unreasonable to expect our customers to bear this exposure.
Local schools and county commission have their own drama about mask requirements, and who in the health department can say what to whom, respectively. I get why health care workers just want to say "have your freedom and consequences, it's not my problem anymore."