@1eqk+1dtsBlMG and @ 1xel+1dtsBlMG
Thank to your family members who have been working as nurses, medical staff and doctors thru this pandemic. It is a great sacrifice and it is appreciated.
This year alone 4 people I know have died from Covid-19. A neighbor in his late 70s with multiple health issues, another neighbor who was 40 with diabetes and 2 family members, both in their mid to late 60s.
The common denominator, none of them were vaccinated. They all died before their time. They brought on their demise and hastened their own deaths. They left behind devastated families and the mourning has not ceased. They were evenly split between being Republicans and Democrats.
If we all remember, early on in March and April of 2020 last year, we were all scared and praying, begging for scientists to come up with a cure. The scientists did us one better, they gave us a preventative treatment. Yet we sit here and refuse to take it.
Our infants and young children have suffered because we as adults refused to do the right thing. We let politics and Facebook conspiracies divide us as neighbors, friends and family. We threw tantrums over masks and doing the right thing for our fellow man. We failed our children by not protecting them and getting vaccinated for their sake so they could return to school and have a childhood that we experienced. We failed our medical teams by exhausting them to their breaking point because we were going to “die on that political conspiracy hill” and not get vaccinated.
No one is treading on your rights. If anything you are treading on my right to live.
The Silent Generation and Early Baby Boomers beat Polio, Small Pox and Measles, Mumps and Reubella. As a society we nearly eradicated those diseases. My Gen X’s had to show proof of vaccination before being enrolled and admitted to school. What’s the problem now? Would you want to live or suffer a lifetime with any of those diseases?
I know people that get Botox, Fillers, Chemical Peels and some have had other Cosmetic Procedures. So you will get a Brazilian Bu-t Lift or put foreign objects such as Br---t Implants in your body, fill your face up, but you won’t get 2 shots to prevent your death? Interesting. You trust your cosmetic procedures, but you don’t trust the Covid-19 vaccine? Hmmmm.
For those who do not believe in the vaccine, don’t go to the hospital when you get symptoms or get sick. Don’t believe the science and don’t beg to be cared for since you chose not to get vaccinated. It’s that simple. Don’t ask doctors and nurses to cure you and make you better if you don’t believe in science. It’s now come down to “Selection of Care,” meaning you will be a statistic and used as a data point to determine whether we save your life or the child who has a ruptured appendix or the man who just suffered a heart attack. Who has the best chance of survival? Not the unvaccinated. You made that choice, so live with it.
Keep those hospital beds open for pregnant women, births, those battling cancer and those who actually need medical attention for their conditions and real emergencies.
Look at your EOC and EOB for your health insurance 2022 enrollment. Many health insurance companies are writing in their policy that if you chose not to get vaccinated for Covid-19 then you will pay a premium and you will be saddled with the hospital bills, higher deductibles, higher copays and higher coinsurance payments. You’re not going to be covered. You will be on the hook financially. Are you prepared to go into financial ruin of hundreds of thousands of dollars to save your life? Are you ready to file for bankruptcy from medical debt? Are you ready to be dropped from your policy?
I had a long sit down talk with my retired parents in December 2020. Dad has 40% kidney function, mom has the onset of Parkinson’s, plus multiple other pre existing conditions. I made it clear that we as a family would get vaccinated. For their sake and ours. We believe in science. We believe in God. We believe that God has given man the knowledge and wisdom needed to help mankind. We believe in doing the right thing. We believe prayers were heard and answered when a vaccine was made available.
I explained that the moment I take you to the hospital with symptoms, is the moment I might never see you again. The moment they put a tube down your throat, you have a 50% or less chance of surviving. I can’t visit you, I can’t comfort you, I can’t hold your hand. You will die alone and I will witness it on FaceTime. Is that how you want to die?
We did not resist wearing masks, we still do in public spaces and when riding public transportation. We did not resist the vaccine, we got both shots and our 3rd booster.
I also made sure they got both Pneumonia Shots and their 2021 Flu Vaccines. I also got my Flu Vaccine.
I’m begging you, for your sake and the future of your children, please get vaccinated.