Revenge of the Silent (Vaccinated) Majority Vaccinated Americans are fed up with the pandemic – and with those who refuse to get inoculated and wear masks. https://www.usnews.com/news/the-rep...inated-americans-are-fed-up-and-fighting-back Professional athletes are used to getting booed by fans on occasion. It could be the reaction to a missed catch, a championship-killing baseball between the legs, or maybe the player defected to a rival team and left some hurt feelings. But in the case of Buffalo Bills player Cole Beasley, the unheard-of boos from hometown fans had nothing to do with his performance on the field. Beasley's not vaccinated against COVID-19, and he has been very vocal about it on social media, saying he doesn't need the shot and doesn't think it's anyone else's place to mandate it for him or anyone else. "Only place I get boo'd is at our home stadium. Then some of the same people want me to take pictures and sign autographs. I thought Bills fans were the best in the world? Where'd they go? If the vaccine works then why do vaxxed people need to be protected from unvaxxed?" Beasley complained on Twitter, adding that fans "right behind the bench [are] yelling at me to get vaccinated and talking (s***)." The 32-year-old wide receiver offered to buy tickets to away games for Bills fans who themselves refuse to get vaccinated and thus can't go to games at Highmark Stadium, where a vaccine mandate is in place for attendees. It's a stunning turn for Bills fans, who are so famously loyal that they routinely show up at the airport at midnight in sub-freezing weather to greet players when the NFL team returns from away games, even when they lose. But as with less-prominent figures, people are just fed up with fellow Americans who won't get vaccinated and bring a close to one of the most painful chapters in recent U.S. history. "It makes zero sense to me, from a selfish personal point of view and a team point of view," says Dr. Tom Russo, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Buffalo's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, noting the threat to Beasley's own health and that of his teammates. "He's emblematic of the frustration" felt by vaccinated Americans, adds Russo, reacting to the situation as both a medical professional and a Bills fan. "We want to be done with this. The reality is, we could have been done with this" had people been more diligent about getting inoculated and wearing masks, he says. "Cole Beasley – and he's part of a significant minority – has made mistakes about being public about his tweets. As a result, he has become an object of frustration. Not only is he holding us back, at the end of the day, it's costing lives," Russo says. More than a year and a half into the pandemic, and 10 months after vaccines first became available, the battle between the vaxxed and un-vaxxed is hitting a breaking point. Those who oppose vaccine mandates – or don't trust the vaccine itself – have gotten headlines for protesting, ripping masks off others' faces and dramatically announcing they will quit public sector or health care jobs instead of getting inoculated. But there's a bigger group, experts say, who have been quieter but are just done with trying to educate, cajole or incentivize people to get the shot. Increasingly in polling, Americans favor mask and social distancing mandates as well as mandatory vaccinations for certain groups. A recent Monmouth University poll found that 63% of Americans nationwide support state-based mask and social distancing rules, up from 52% in July. A Fox News poll in September found that 67% of respondents favor masks in schools, and 66% say businesses should be able to require them of employees and customers. There was also majority support for mandatory vaccinations for teachers (61% approve), federal employees (58%), businesses with more than 100 employees, as President Joe Biden has mandated (56%), and as a city requirement for people at gyms, restaurants and performances (54% approve, up from 50% in the summer). "There's this underlying, silent majority who are upset with the whole anti-mask and anti-vax" movement, says Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth poll, predicting it will have an effect on competitive gubernatorial elections next month. Those opposed to masking and vaccines (or just to the idea that a company, school or government is making them do it) are still out in force. Earlier this week, anti-vaccine protesters jeered at parents and elementary school students in Beverly Hills, California, telling them they should not wear masks. California K-12 students are required to wear masks now, and Gov. Gavin Newsom announced recently that eligible children will also have to be vaccinated, once the FDA approves the vaccine for kids 5-12. Students at Montana State University are clashing with the administration over a mask mandate protesters said was not announced until classes had already started. "Everyone at school felt like they lied to us to get tuition money," says Dylan Dean, 22, who organized a petition and protest to lift the mandate. Before the semester started, students got an email saying masks were optional, but "once we were here, they took the money and ran," adds Dean, who is taking time off from school until he can attend in more normal circumstances. He's part of Young Americans for Liberty, which is organizing similar protests at other higher education institutions. Biden imposed a vaccine mandate for federal employees and contractors (with some flexibility for agencies) in September, and private businesses are increasingly instituting their own mandates for workers. Initially very controversial, those policies are going over increasingly well with a pandemic-weary public, experts say. "I think that the patience has run really thin" with people who won't get inoculated against the virus, says Richard Carpiano, a University of California–Riverside public health scientist and sociologist who studies vaccine hesitancy. Now that more people know someone who has become ill or even died from COVID-19, tolerance of the unmasked and un-vaxxed is waning, says psychiatrist Dr. Howard Pratt, Behavioral Health Medical Director at Community Health of South Florida. "You actually become the face of the problem," Pratt says of the willfully unvaccinated. The mandates are convincing a good chunk of the unvaccinated to get the shot, doctors in the field say, although they add that people are waiting until the last possible day before losing their jobs to get vaccinated. "For me, there has to be zero tolerance. I can't have someone take care of a kid in the ICU with cancer who hasn't been vaccinated" against a wide array of illnesses, says Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health and a practicing ER physician. Dickson says he's had about 10% of the staff who have been reluctant to get the coronavirus vaccine, and that it would be devastating if he lost that much of his workforce. But he estimated that just 1-2% would actually refuse to give in and get the shot. And that "silent majority," Carpiano says, will prevail. "There most definitely is a certain air of desperation with a lot of the anti-vaccine crowd," Carpiano says. "They're very vocal; they're very loud about it, very active at school board meetings, threatening elected officials and public health officials, having temper tantrums in stores." But "the vast majority of Americans want to do the right thing, want to follow the science in order to get us out of this," he adds. Medical professionals are hoping that happens in time to get the pandemic under control before a new variant can develop.
Let's address the latest nonsense being pushed by unhinged anti-vaxxers Claim: A person’s immune system “tanks” after their second COVID-19 vaccine dose. No evidence that COVID-19 vaccines weaken the immune system https://www.politifact.com/factchec...dence-covid-19-vaccines-weaken-immune-system/
That problem, if it exists at all, pales in comparison to the social and economic problems being created. Brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, small businesses being crushed, educational system in chaos, rule by degree authoritative government. Having a little less resistance to the seasonal flu is childs play.
Virus will spread and mutate with or without the vaccine. Shit for brains bio lab made the virus so contagious nothing will stop it. I'm still waiting for the real reason this virus was released.
The following is the song your body has been singing as your body fought off MMR when you were a kid, after you were vaccinated with MMR, tDap, and all the others. And your vaccinations won the war. That is why you are not DEAD.
GWB wait for the side effects to come out. The vaccines have already been injected into your body. You ET trolls are just too dumb to figure out that you may have already allowed poison to be injected to your bodies including, your family members. See, that is the problem with you extreme liberal idiots. Numerous accounts of side effects just starting to come out with Moderna being effectively, banned now in some European countries for those young people below 30 years because heart problems have developed, caused serious injury and deaths. But, nothing to see there right, fools? I do not know how much Big Pharma has been paying you ET trolls but, are the lies worth your life? What about your family members? Do their lives matter? You don't care so, why should we care? And you are not taking revenge fool. All you got are side effects up your ass coming real soon, if not already.
Pushing nonsense again, eh. Any vaccine side effects come out within the initial 6 months after vaccination. Usually within days of vaccination. The fantasy that vaccination side-effects will show up years later is pure anti-vaxxer nonsense.