Anti Vaxxers wearing yellow star in protest

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Anti Vaxxers wearing yellow star in protest

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https://www.newsweek.com/dan-rather-vac ... as-1649048

Lately (2021) anti vaxxers have been wearing the yellow star of David in protest of being 'forced' to be vaccinated against Covid.

https://nypost.com/2019/04/08/anti-vaxx ... ote-cause/

This isn't the latest story. The above link dates back to 2019. Way before Covid-19 was even a thing. At least they are consistent.

People like Marjorie Green have been doing this all year.

I just don't get these people.

There is a huge gap the size of the Grand Canyon between getting a vaccine for your health and everyone else's versus being gased to death or shot into a mass grave due to your ethnicity.
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Yeah, I've heard about this before. It's as tasteless as it is childish. Really sums up the Republican victim mindset.
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Aside from matters of taste in using the yellow star, are they actually wrong?

The Biden Administration is trying to implement regulations to make it illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job, by the dubious method of coopting private employers to police and enforce its wants as the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to do this directly. We are seriously talking about making a fairly large group of people second class citizens over medicines that do reduce death and infection rates, but do not entirely prevent infection, whose effectiveness may wane rather quickly, needing frequent boosters, and not without side effects. Should the government have the power to have legal sanctions to coerce citizens into taking medical treatments they are skeptical of?

Furthermore, anti-vaxxers have been a bipartisan movement, prior to Covid it was more a left ,one entry, like with Robert Kennedy Jr. being one of the leaders. Remember, the Democrsts only became rabidly pro-Covid vaccines after the Biden regime came to power. They were pooh-poohing them when Trump was in office. Politics has made this more of a hot potato than it should ever have been.
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Mickey_Rat15 wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:45 pm Aside from matters of taste in using the yellow star, are they actually wrong?

The Biden Administration is trying to implement regulations to make it illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job, by the dubious method of coopting private employers to police and enforce its wants as the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to do this directly. We are seriously talking about making a fairly large group of people second class citizens over medicines that do reduce death and infection rates, but do not entirely prevent infection, whose effectiveness may wane rather quickly, needing frequent boosters, and not without side effects. Should the government have the power to have legal sanctions to coerce citizens into taking medical treatments they are skeptical of?

Furthermore, anti-vaxxers have been a bipartisan movement, prior to Covid it was more a left ,one entry, like with Robert Kennedy Jr. being one of the leaders. Remember, the Democrsts only became rabidly pro-Covid vaccines after the Biden regime came to power. They were pooh-poohing them when Trump was in office. Politics has made this more of a hot potato than it should ever have been.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/04/10489398 ... 00-workers
Deadline is Jan. 4: The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), covers companies with 100 or more employees and applies to an estimated 84 million workers. Companies must ensure either that their workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or that they test negative for the coronavirus at least once a week.
"Illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job."

There's not one letter of truth to what you're saying.
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BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:11 pm
Mickey_Rat15 wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:45 pm Aside from matters of taste in using the yellow star, are they actually wrong?

The Biden Administration is trying to implement regulations to make it illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job, by the dubious method of coopting private employers to police and enforce its wants as the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to do this directly. We are seriously talking about making a fairly large group of people second class citizens over medicines that do reduce death and infection rates, but do not entirely prevent infection, whose effectiveness may wane rather quickly, needing frequent boosters, and not without side effects. Should the government have the power to have legal sanctions to coerce citizens into taking medical treatments they are skeptical of?

Furthermore, anti-vaxxers have been a bipartisan movement, prior to Covid it was more a left ,one entry, like with Robert Kennedy Jr. being one of the leaders. Remember, the Democrsts only became rabidly pro-Covid vaccines after the Biden regime came to power. They were pooh-poohing them when Trump was in office. Politics has made this more of a hot potato than it should ever have been.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/04/10489398 ... 00-workers
Deadline is Jan. 4: The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), covers companies with 100 or more employees and applies to an estimated 84 million workers. Companies must ensure either that their workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or that they test negative for the coronavirus at least once a week.
"Illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job."

There's not one letter of truth to what you're saying.
Not in the US perhaps - but look up Australia. Hoo boy. They have become Orwellian as f-k. Almost... concentration camp like...
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clearspira wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:53 pm
BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:11 pm
"Illegal for the unvaccinated to hold a job."

There's not one letter of truth to what you're saying.
Not in the US perhaps - but look up Australia. Hoo boy. They have become Orwellian as f-k. Almost... concentration camp like...
Apparently that's begun to be lightened in recent weeks. As far as I've read, it's one province what have you, and they have really bad case numbers as well.
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Antivaxxers are exactly equivalent to people who defecate directly in the drinking water supply and then blame the cholera outbreak on toilet users. It's suicide and murder on a massive scale for nothing but childish spite. Comparing being prevented from continuing to do so to being the victims of genocide is... well pretty on-brand, honestly.
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hammerofglass wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:28 pm Antivaxxers are exactly equivalent to people who defecate directly in the drinking water supply and then blame the cholera outbreak on toilet users. It's suicide and murder on a massive scale for nothing but childish spite. Comparing being prevented from continuing to do so to being the victims of genocide is... well pretty on-brand, honestly.
Look just because they voted for Trump in '16 doesn't mean they're all racists.
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Mickey_Rat15 wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:45 pm Aside from matters of taste in using the yellow star, are they actually wrong?
Yep. We're trying to keep them alive. The Nazis were trying to kill the Jews.
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clearspira wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:53 pmNot in the US perhaps - but look up Australia. Hoo boy. They have become Orwellian as f-k. Almost... concentration camp like...
That dastardly Biden has put his foot down. Down under, that is. :lol:
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