One of the most annoying constants of today’s society is the notion that every issue has at least two points of equal merit and value.
When the former president said that there were “good people on both sides” of the Charlottesville march, he was said that there were good racists and good antiracists.
See how ridiculous that sounds?
It doesn’t sound any better to say that both vaxxers and anti-vaxxers have good points.
Not when the health and safety of our world is at stake.
Not when spiking virus numbers could be lowered.
Not when people are dying because of stubborn ignorance.
There’s no “we should respect each other’s opinions and just try to get along” when there’s a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide.
People should be vaccinated. Period. End of story.
No one is trying to enslave you.
No one is abridging your freedoms.
No one is trying to manipulate and control you.
Manipulation and control look more like people with specious credentials passing themselves off as medical experts.
Manipulation and control look like people trying to blame a country for birthing the virus, and not focusing on what can be done to contain the virus.
And it’s not just about manipulation and control.
It’s also about selfishness.
Selfishness that causes someone not to be vaccinated when they have vulnerable family and friends.
Selfishness that causes someone to think that their “rights and privileges” come before others’ health and safety.
Selfishness that sees the number of sick and dying going up, but refusing to take action because of misguided definitions of freedom and liberty.
And it’s about ignorance.
The ignorance that says “it won’t happen to me.”
The ignorance that says being considerate of others is weak and emasculating.
There aren’t two sides to this issue.
Unless you mean that there is a right and wrong side.
There are two of those, and there’s no debating which is which.