by Tony Gray
posted: 11 October 2021

Remember when Americans believed you were entitled to your own opinion and that the First Amendment allowed to speak your mind without reprisal? What happened, America?

Specifically, let's talk about the Covid-19 vaccine. Vaccination is a good idea but government shouldn't be able to force you to get one. Especially since the mortality rate for Covid isn't much greater than it is for most strains of influenza.

Before the crazies pick up their pens, don't bother. I got the Johnson & Johnson jab. I held out for months but got one when Cuomo said vaccinated people could lose their masks and go back to an almost normal life. Plus, I was promised a $20 lottery scratch off. Of course, there was no scratch off and now the crazies are wanting me to wear a mask again, even though I'm vaccinated. Don't I feel stupid.

What I don't understand is the rabid anger that many people -- and, let's face it, most of them are blue state Democrats -- express about people who don't want to get a vaccine.

Those people are vaccinated, right? If they are, what are they worried about? The vaccine protects you against Covid, isn't that what they say? It would be the height of hypocrisy if they rant against the "anti-vaxxers" while they remain unvaccinated.

If they were honest, they would admit they are more angered that you won't accept that they are so much smarter than you and you won't just shut up and do what they say. Which, in this case, is vaccinate.

Did you see the women hosts of "The View" trash LeBron James because he wouldn't spread their gospel about getting a jab? The NBA star said he thought that was a personal decision that people should make for themselves and he didn't feel it was right for him to tell people what to do. It wasn't enough that he and his family are vaccinated. He had to agree to be their poster boy, or he was dog poop on their shoes.

Then, there are the rising number of "vax or axe" mandates by states and employers that say "get the vaccine or get fired." Our state is among those mandating health care workers get vaccinated. When New York's health care system is already dangerously low on qualified workers, they are going to fire tens of thousands for disagreeing with them. Do the people who later die because of a lack of medical workers accrue to Governor Hochul? I believe they should.

Her policy is as stupid as her former boss, Andrew Cuomo, who forced nursing homes to accept covid-positive patients. That was at the same time little Timmy and Susie couldn't visit MeeMaw "to protect her from getting Covid."

I would say there must be something in the drinking water at the executive mansion but it runs deeper than that. Rochester General Hospital let a terminal Covid patient die without letting him receive the experimental antiviral Ivermectin. Even a court order wasn't enough to force them to follow the family's wish. Is that arrogance, or what? So, maybe their new slogan should be: Rochester General -- where people go to die?

I've read about a number of patients around the country who have been denied organ transplants because they weren't vaccinated. Those hospitals want you to get vaccinated against Covid-19 so bad, they're willing to kill you to save your life. Yeah, chew on that.

As bad as the rabid haters of non-vaccinated people is, I believe the censorship of their views is worse. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and their ilk are banning people from their platforms for arguing their beliefs about Covid, if those beliefs are contrary to their agenda.

You can fill history books with medical cures and advances that only came about after people endured tremendous ridicule for their ideas, which were not widely believed by most doctors. Can you believe there was a time when most doctors believed that bleeding a patient could cure them? Thank God big tech wasn't around then or doctors would still be applying leeches to testicles to "cure" gonorrhea. Ouch.

There is one silver lining in the governmental overreach we are seeing, along with the blind acceptance of mandates by bleeding hearts. It will likely lead to the end of legalized abortion on demand.

Those who accept that government can force me to accept their vaccine injection are spelling an end to the mantra abortion advocates espouse about "My body, my choice!"

Vaccinated people throw shade at anyone objecting to getting vaccinated. When you point out they are vaccinated and have nothing to worry about, they bring up immune-compromised people who can't get the vaccine. "We all need to get vaccinate to save people like them."

For one thing, immune-compromised people are probably avoiding other people like the plague. Even if they do not, just getting Covid is not a death sentence. Most people who get it experience mild-to-moderate symptoms. Some don't feel anything at all. A small number need hospitalization and possibly a ventilator. An even smaller number die.

So, there is a very small chance that a hypothetical stranger may die if an unvaccinated person gave them Covid. But, you know what? There is a 100 percent chance that an aborted fetus will never draw a breath.

This seems like a case of getting what you wished for and later realizing you didn't word your wish correctly. Because if it's not my choice to keep your vaccine out of my body, will women still have a choice to remove the baby from their body? Vaccines MAY save a life. Denying an abortion WILL save a life.

You do the math.