Well, sir, it is a miracle, a MIRACLE! I tell ya, how religion has come to the unvaccinated. Now that the Governor of our fair state and the President of our In God We Trust country have mandated Covid shots for all government workers, suddenly the filings for personal exemptions have surged faster than the plague caseload itself. Cops, firefighters, social service workers, bus drivers, even nurses and doctors, all those folks who, for whatever reason before, ignored the pleas to please get a vaccination, please wear a mask, please maintain social distancing, now are petitioning the State or their employers to exempt them for \u2026 wait for it \u2026 religious reasons. Please, Mr. President, don\u2019t make me take that inoculation. My religion opposes vaccines.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in their Bibles or their Quran or maybe their Book of Mormon , there\u2019s an admonition, probably punishable by eternal damnation, against injecting alien substances into their inviolable and holy selves. Nothing, probably, against horse dewormer, but a vaccine, no way! Against the will of God, an affront to Allah. Get back, Beelzebub!! The road to salvation is not littered with empty syringes, but the road to Hell must be, that much is certain.<\/p>\n
Personally, now that I\u2019ve befouled my mortal coil with god only knows what alien substances, I can\u2019t, for the life of me, understand this antipathy for an immunity to a disease that has killed two thirds of a million of us and sickened more than 40 million, some who will suffer long term effects. If polio or smallpox made a resurgence, or some new flesh eating monstrous disease suddenly appeared, is this the response we would expect? Maybe Covid isn\u2019t scary enough. Maybe the sight of strangers struggling to breathe on ventilators isn\u2019t frightening to these folks. Maybe they haven\u2019t had a relative die yet in an overloaded hospital, no visitors allowed, just a lonely isolated death. Maybe their imaginations can\u2019t quite conjure that vision. Or \u2026 they just don\u2019t give a damn. Maybe they need an Ebola virus that devours flesh and turns it putrid, something so godawful not even their religious beliefs would stop them from taking whatever nano-tracking, magnetizing, pregnancy ending vaccine was offered. <\/p>\n
I give up understanding these people, I really do. And I won\u2019t waste breath reasoning with them. I don\u2019t think you can. So it\u2019s fine with me to mandate getting a shot or getting fired, go work for Burger King. Be all right with me if clinics and hospitals refused to give these suddenly devout yahoos entry. You folks plugged our ICU\u2019s, filled our wards, kept others from getting the care they need. Harsh, I know, and we won\u2019t do that,but don\u2019t ask for a religious exemption and don\u2019t expect to get one. Your religion is a little thin and a bit newfound. Mine says respect life. And here\u2019s one last piece of advice for you who have found holiness at this late date: Trumpism isn\u2019t a religion. Probably just the opposite. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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