Republican pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting Trump voters to better understand why they won’t take the simple step of protecting themselves and their fellow citizens.
Their answers were predictably ignorant. One guy said, “I mean, we’re just going to be shot up and shot up and shot up. We can’t live like this. This is not sustainable.” One woman complained about “being bullied, being humiliated, basically, by the media. I don’t really see the point in getting it if nothing is going to change, and I haven’t gotten sick.”
But the piece de resistance was their enthused opinion about fake vaccination cards. They want one. If they were to get one, think of all the freedom they would have!
The cult of American selfishness is truly a phenomenon to behold. One woman in the Luntz focus group said she’s “1,000 percent” in favor of obtaining a fake card with the CDC logo (widely available these days on eBay and elsewhere) so that she could do anything she wants. And one guy said, “If I have a fake vaccine card, yeah, I can go anywhere,” especially to ballgames in parks – like Yankee Stadium – that currently require proof of vaccination. Others at the focus group table shared their desire to go to concerts or go on trips where proof of shots is mandatory.
These people are contemptible.
Their concern for the community is zero. Their self-absorption is total. Their determination to commit fraud and walk among us – to breathe among us – will spread COVID-19 (especially the variants), extend the pandemic, sicken more people and kill more people. Every health expert says this, but alas, as we well know, Freedom-lovers don’t like it when the “elites” try to “bully” them.
Ask yourself this question: As life incrementally returns to something resembling normal, would you want to eat inside a restaurant next to an unvaccinated idiot with a fake CDC card? Or stand shoulder to shoulder at a concert? As Nenette Day, an assistant special agent in the federal Department of Health and Human Services inspector general’s office, reportedly says, “It disturbs me, having been in law enforcement this long, this flippant attitude that people have.”
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