Let me vent my frustration a little about the MAGA crowd and COVID

 

Look, Ma, no mandate!

All right, MAGA crowd, let us concede that your right to unimpeded lifestyle is supreme over all, and that sickness and death are simply a natural phenomenon and therefore a morally neutral one.  How many people get sick, how many people die, how many people experience long-term health problems, whether hospitals are overloaded and people do not get adequate medical care, not just for COVID, but for a wide range of problems, are simply the workings of a virus with no moral agency and therefore cannot be treated as a moral evil.

But might I humbly suggest that even if the sickness and death caused by the virus are not evil in the moral sense, they are nonetheless bad in the sense of being undesirable.  That if your right to an absolutely unimpeded lifestyle trumps all public health concerns, nonetheless, given the choice between your unimpeded lifestyle causing less sickness and death and your unimpeded lifestyle causing more sickness and death, choosing your favored lifestyle with less sickness and death is a clear no-brainer. 

So guess what?  Getting the vaccine will not interfere with your chosen lifestyle!  Two brief visits to a pharmacy that is giving shots and perhaps a day’s sickness and it is all over!  You are free to return to your favored lifestyle with much less sickness and death than if you had not taken the shot!*

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*Yeah, I know.  Hardcore anti-vaxxers don’t accept any of these premises.  Our office deplorable has known enough people who got COVID that he has to admit that it exists, but he still denies that it is any worse than ordinary flu, or that there has been any increase in the death rate.  And he has all sorts of hypothetical horrors he can imagine about the vaccine.