Now, I haven’t spent any time here arguing for mandates–though I clearly have an opinion on them, just like every other breathing person right now. I think there are some valid arguments on both ends, but ultimately we should try to think a few more inches in front of our noses to see what happens when we give in to people’s wants, their whines, their control over their own bodies with regards to a brutal illness that can kill anyone.
Now, we all can agree we live in a society with other people. Those who maintain life without that are snug in their compounds hiding off far from other people. Now I have always considered government the tool with which society is maintained and supported–our government and leaders are there to LEAD us, and yes, sometimes even against our own worst inclinations. We use our votes to decide who these people are, and generally speaking, you sometimes expect your leadership to disappoint you, but you hope that you have leadership which has balls big enough to be able to disappoint you and explain WHY they are disappointing you. On the right side, we seem to have a bunch of weak-spined FOLLOWERS, unable to disappoint people, not confident they possess the communication skills to explain just how brutal COVID will be to its survivors and the population of people alive during its torment. Now, I didn’t vote for any of those people, but even still, the left has all of this information I do and they are just letting the right get away with infecting everyone, because I assume, they, too, have zero faith in Americans to do the right thing ever, and have decided F it, we’ll make money too when everyone is sick.
Now we have about 63% of Americans who have had their jabs-this does mean there is a minority population terrorizing us all and ensuring they will take everything down with them in the process. Do we let the minority population ruin us for decades and saddle the country with debt and a scarcity in resources later? What do I even mean by that? Well, considering every infected person happens to infect on average 3 people and there are people who’ve infected hundreds more-every infected person is basically a bomb set off in whatever direction full of something you won’t know until it goes off. Every person who infects someone who has no health insurance is sending someone to a hospital unable to pay their bills-even WITH insurance this is an issue. Now the hospitals used to have charity care budgets to help the poor with their medical bills, but certainly someone who is openly welcoming that debt to their lives shouldn’t be granted the same reprieves and you’d imagine there will be some ethics involved in determining who gets that help. Sorry to say, anti-vaxxers, that’s not you nor should it be. So what happens then? Well, they send you a bill, ask you to set up a payment arrangement. It could exceed a hundred-thousand, a million and on up–do you really think you’re going to make a dent in a payment arrangement like that? What happens if you get sent back in a few months and need to then make a second payment arrangement for a million plus? What happens if you don’t have enough money or the employment to earn health insurance and get sick because you cannot afford the preventative medicine? Well, the ER is there for you for when you think you are dying right then. It does exist to keep people out of the hospital with preventative means.
So what, we’ve got 72,958,690 confirmed cases in the US or really almost a quarter of our population and 891,595 dead so far. So maybe it’s not every person who ended up in the hospital but 10,20, even 30% could be absolutely devastating for the country to see experience those kinds of bills. So you make your payment plan, or you don’t, whatever you do is on you, but if you do not, approximately 18-24 months after your hospitalization, they will try to sue you, and win, as they usually do. And then you get wage-garnished. Don’t worry, I think most states only let about 30% of your pay get deducted for a debt like that. I am sure everyone can afford that. So you either accept that, or you quit and bounce jobs so you can get a little time where they can’t find you for a while, or you file for medical bankruptcy, questioning how many more times you might need to in life now that you have an illness which needs continuous care. In the meantime, lots of these regional private hospitals are in big trouble with bills like that, so they close. Sure, there’s a larger population of people now who need healthcare and will need that hospital, but institutions cannot be run for free. So your minority population of people will be doing that because they do not care. Sure, they care enough to go to the hospitals themselves after refusing vaccination, and closing them almost gleefully, sure they screamed loud about body autonomy while killing your friends and family members who did the right thing who needed the hospital bed they sat in for everything BUT COVID. But they do not care about anyone in society but themselves.
These people are fully responsible–because they live in a society too with the rest of us.
The thing that should be abundantly clear is COVID will be a problem and isn’t going away and just like every other preventable illness, could be managed out of existence if it weren’t the minority ruining it all.
So you don’t really GAF about closing hospitals and that doesn’t bug you a bit. How about thinking about all the people who might need social security disability after COVID. Some of these long COVID sufferers were accounting for about 30% of cases–you take 30% of out that population total, and you’ve got maybe 22 million who might be permanently disabled. Currently there are only 9,919,094 people receiving Social Security disability benefits as disabled workers, disabled widow(er)s, or disabled adult children. I am sure you see that math if it does only stay at 30% doesn’t lend well to keeping that fund stable and will seriously impede any new disability status grants because that is a massive burden on our system–those people might be permanently removed from the producer pool–and the crazy thing is, it’s on them, and our shit leadership.
So those screaming about their body autonomy as a group will ruin our health systems we will need, and burden a social security system that can almost not handle its current load–because they personal freedom exempts them from the social contract. Now that same social contract is how we have made it this far in our evolution–that same social contract SHOULD designate those who refuse vaccination and refuse to be a part of the solution to not use government resources to help them, that’s unemployment for refusal (you hate socialism, that’s what unemployment is), and definitely none if you should be going to any hospital you can’t pay for on your own. How’s that? Why does your right to ignore what’s good for public health allow you the ability to use health services? We’ve all see the kick them off health insurance (can’t do that thanks to Obamacare) and refuse them hospital entry-but ultimately that same pick yourself up by your bootstraps mentality can be used for your own personal healthcare. You don’t want the vax, stay out of those socialist hospitals if your bank account balance is too low.
Is this fair? Should we let 30% of the population hold us all hostage? If our government allows that 30% to hold us all hostage and won’t do anything to intervene, don’t they all OWE us who did the right thing, at least a program called HEALTHCARE FOR ALL based on a European model? If we are going to let these people continue to ruin our healthcare worker’s lives, there needs to be a reward for it-first up, forgive every student loan of every HC worker who hasn’t left and will stay on for a few years. That’s incentive that’s deserved. Next? I have no idea, but I do know a real democracy can’t be held hostage by the 30%, now matter how snowed and brainwashed they are or how righteous they think their stance is THEY ARE IN THE MINORITY. Autonomy requires independence, and unless you are one of those preppers hiding in the woods right now, you aren’t living without affecting the community around you. You have a social contract debt you’re trying to skip out on-and it’s not cool at all.