Guest Post by Peter Doshi
Increasingly, vaccination is no longer a matter of choice. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of workplaces and schools are instituting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, with more expected following formal FDA licensure of the vaccines. But mandating people and their children who have consciously chosen not to get vaccinated — a group that tends to be younger, less educated, Republican, non-white and uninsured — is a recipe for creating new and deeper fractures within our society, the kind of fractures we may profoundly regret in hindsight.
Let’s not sugarcoat it: This is a new form of institutionalized segregation. Yes, some unvaccinated adults may swallow this bitter pill and comply as a way of doing their part in making America safer. But many will see it — along with requirements that the unvaccinated wear masks or undergo regular COVID testing — as a thinly veiled attempt at public shaming. After all, if the goal is to maximize the interruption of spread, then surely all people should be masked irrespective of vaccination status.
Forced compliance will come with future consequences. The ensuing anger, resentment and loss of trust forms a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Are we ready to add this mandate to the list of issues helping erode the fabric of our society?
These practices diverge substantially from the historical norm of equal opportunity. For all other required vaccines, religious and philosophical exemptions allow unvaccinated children to enjoy the same educational experience as the vaccinated. This is because exemptions reflect a social value that in the United States, there are valid reasons for refusing treatments or vaccines, and these reasons will be respected. Once exempt, there are no sanctions experienced in everyday life. But with COVID vaccine mandates, even those with exemptions are being sanctioned, sending another clear message: We really don’t care about your reasons.
And in schools, where a child’s experience will be shaped by their parents’ decisions and those of policymakers, the situation could become tragic. If schools invite vaccinated children to lose their masks, what was once an act of social responsibility could morph into a mark of disease.
What should we anticipate? Children of different ages being barred from mingling. Children being bullied, ridiculed and mocked, with taunts using terms like “covidiot.” Differential treatment toward unvaccinated children by some teachers (who are, just like everyone else, individuals with their own views about COVID vaccines). And families deciding to withdraw from formal education, choosing instead to home-school.
Vaccinate-or-mask policies will drive a wedge between children and parents, cause daily psychological harm, carrying long lasting consequences for future generations.
Some might see mandate resistance as a symptom of vaccine misinformation. But considering most of these individuals have complied with mandates for routine vaccines such as mumps and measles, diseases of far less societal consequence than COVID, is it not worth listening to their objections against COVID vaccine mandates?
For some, there’s little value in a vaccine against a disease they have already recovered from, even as new variants develop. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by May, 120 million Americans of all ages (35% of the population) had already been infected with SARS-CoV-2. New data shows natural immunity is six to 13 times more protective against emerging variants than vaccines.
For many, it is a product safety issue. The vaccines were developed and tested in months, not years, before rollout, and they were initially authorized by regulators in the context of an emergency. These people want greater assurances of safety and efficacy — something that requires additional time and data.
Yet in response, some public commentators are calling for the FDA to speed its review process and approve all of the coronavirus vaccines. Thus far, only one COVID-19 vaccine has received full approval. While such an approval might convince a slice of the unvaccinated, many will remain skeptical. Considering that the pivotal safety and efficacy trials were designed as two-year trials to finish in mid-2022, an approval this year can be seen as premature.
Despite hundreds of millions of doses already in bodies, we are still in the learning phase regarding vaccine safety and efficacy, as can be witnessed in the data about “breakthrough infections” and previously unknown side effects like myocarditis and blood clots.
Most people may accept this uncertainty and conclude that whatever the risks, they are outweighed by the benefits. But for the minority who desire greater scientific certainty, we should respect these reasons, not respond with mandates.
We already know this country has deep divisions. We simply cannot allow coercive policies that will result in the creation of a society that is less just and more fractured than it already is.
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When a few million people finally die from the shots maybe people will get the shit out of their eyes and see the truth.
Likely a few million already have.
Some people will see the truth, because it’s pretty obvious now, what with all the athletes dropping dead, the ERs full of “mystery illnesses” and the sudden influx of dead babies that the injections are a death sentence. Still most of the jabbed are running around Eye’s Wide Shut.
The crematoriums will be running full blast 24/7 world wide, and people will never admit it was the injections that caused it. The cognitive dissonance is that extreme.
The Irony of it all is, is that if they hadn’t stolen the election from Trump, the leftist TDS folks would have boycotted the Trump shot and probably survived. But it became a Biden shot so the ran to the injection clinics as fast as they could.
They reap what they’ve sown.
Hopefully, but the evil dwarf, Fauci, will blame the unvaxxed.
Tell me about it. I am job hunting and have to ask every employer if they mandate the vaxx. It is rather sad.
Hope you find something, Winchester.
The social contract between the governed and Dot Gov is irretrievably broken.
The drawbridge is up and there’s no going back.
This person can not be this naive. Does he not realize that all the negative consequences are the intended objective?
most people buy a ticket halfway through the movie.
c’mon people try to keep up.
What’s with this shit?
“But mandating people and their children who have consciously chosen not to get vaccinated — a group that tends to be younger, less educated, Republican, non-white and uninsured ”
And …
“Yes, some unvaccinated adults may swallow this bitter pill and comply as a way of doing their part in making America safer.”
and no, it’s cause it’s my body my choice…
“For many, it is a product safety issue. The vaccines were developed and tested in months, not years, before rollout, and they were initially authorized by regulators in the context of an emergency. “
No, we know that the trials were rigged, and adverse events not reported–it’s a criminal conspiracy…
The exact same sentences (phrases) jumped out at me too.
So Doshi is pro-vaxx, believes that the “vaccines” are safe and effective, and believes that “anti-vaxxers” are ignorant uneducated Republicans, ignorant uneducated youths, or ignorant uneducated blacks with no insurance (no insurance? wtf has that got to do with anything).
Why isn’t he full on pro-mandatory jabs if he thinks this way?
“Some unvaccinated adults may swallow this bitter pill and comply as a way of doing their part in making America safer”. Safer? This author is hopelessly naive and disingenuous. The government is attempting to coerce us into taking an ineffectual, untested concoction, in the middle of a so-called pandemic, for a bioengineered disease with an overall survival rate of 99.8%. Minimal lip service is provided for adverse reactions, but these are glossed over despite the huge number of severe, and often fatal, consequences of taking the jab and the now endless “boosters”. In many areas, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, etc., most of the people sick, hospitalized, or dying are “fully vaccinated”. The vaccines themselves are the driving force behind mutant varieties of the virus, which scoff at any paltry, transient antibody response from the jab. On top of it all, safe, effective and inexpensive treatments, i.e. ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, are available, and have had great success in areas where they have been widely used, such as India and Africa. Highly conditioned, young, healthy athletes around the world are dying in significant numbers from sudden cardiac events after taking the jab. Yet “experts” claim to be perplexed and loudly proclaim these deaths have nothing to do with the jab. Bridge for sale, any takers? Long term morbidity and mortality are still largely unknown, but we are already seeing an uptick in a variety of serious, and often fatal neurologic diseases. Add to that the increase in miscarriages and likely permanent sterility of young women accepting the poison, and you get Bill Gate’s fever dream of depopulation. Safer? Only for the elites who faked their “vaccination” with saline injections and are directing the headlong rush to the NWO/great reset.
Amen.
The author probably also believes that elections matter
“We already know this country has deep divisions. We simply cannot allow coercive policies that will result in the creation of a society that is less just and more fractured than it already is.”
I’m not so sure. I think it might be best to allow this society to fracture fully. You go your way, I’ll go mine.
#texit #freedom #liberty
Correct: the divisions are beyond repair. We need to divorce
Dream on Reverend. We are willing to go our own way, do our own thing and worship the Living God. They want our property. They want to tell us what to do and how. They mock the Almighty while half the clergy have become their minions. We are in an Old Testament ass smiting situation, and we best be getting serious about getting on with it.
Please don’t ever refer to me as Reverend; there is nothing reverential about me and…
Psalm 111:9 KJB… “He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.”
…it’s a name only One can claim.
“We are in an Old Testament ass smiting situation…”
Actually, we are in a no testament grace offering situation. Not sure how much longer it can last.
Amen to you brother GCP!
Sorry, but vaccination is ALWAYS a matter of choice. Don’t take it – ever!
I can’t claim to know when it will begin, but I’d suspect January 4th–the mandate date–will result in the culmination of pent-up anger and the revolt will have begun. It’s not so much the adults…it’s the kids/grandkids that will set off this keg of dynamite. The Mama Bears and the Papa Bears will come out of their hibernation to show their claws & fangs.
I would not underestimate this bunch.
Agreed. Whenever they mandate it for school attendance might also be another date to watch.
Reminds me of War of the Worlds in which the Martians caught an Earth virus and died, but this case will be the Vaxxed got a dose of mRNA/Spike Proteins which caused them to keel over during the next year or so from heart attacks, COPD, various infections, mysterious ailments, cancers, etc. Those Useless Idiots that took the Shot(s) are part of the 6 billion goal for Liquidation by TPTB, they’re like the fools that drank the Koolaid at Jonestown. I’ll miss them but they all do get the Darwin Award, you betcha.
Yep, I’m just about to run of of fingers for people I’ve personally known that have died within 2 months of getting the jab. Most had at least one comorbidity, but one was a healthy 42 year old farmer. Nine is a lot of deaths for me to know for a 6 month period. I guess I just knew too many covidiots. this thing is getting too obvious for them to cover up much longer.
The vaxxed will be dying and disabled who gives a shit. Let em die.
In all reality all this mandate crap everywhere will do nothing to damage the children like this insane gender switching idiocy and CRT slander the woke education system want to cramp down our kids throats! Stop and think! Just take all the kids out of the public Marxist education system the U.S. has now, and put them in the home school system. It’s not the worst thing that could happen. There are fabulous home school programs out therenow. And besides when all the intelligent teachers walk out because they refuse the jab, there will be even more good programs out thth ere to teach our children math, reading, history, economics(something that hasn’t been taught since I graduated in 1968) ! Nope, closing these sorry excuses for higher education, infact any education level would be a great boon to our country. START OVER, DO IT BETTER!