I'm Reminded of the Old Days, When I Used to Watch Television.

It was way back when the little mobile phones -- maybe the flip phones, or maybe before that -- were becoming popular, and there was what was understood to be a holdout demographic: men, and especially manly men, and tough guys.  So, there was an advertisement that featured a middle-aged man driving a pickup truck, and wearing a cowboy hat, and speaking with what I vaguely recall was a southern accent, and using a mobile phone.  If this was good enough for him, and he approved and saw value in it, then it was good enough for anyone.

Now, there's this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/telling-conservatives-its-a-shot-to-restore-our-freedoms-how-online-ads-are-promoting-coronavirus-vaccination/ar-AANGLpc?li=BBnb7Kz

It's very hard to understand the coronavirus vaccine holdouts.  They make their reasons clear -- there is no coronavirus, or it's all a government plot/hoax, or it's the fault of the Chinese, or the vaccine isn't proven enough, or the vaccine is dangerous -- but these reasons are entirely invented, and they don't make sense.

The whole matter, which is a medical problem, has bizarrely been politicized.  It's said to have economic consequences, which it does, but it's simply not political.  And the people who invent this interpretation -- that the government shouldn't tell people what to do -- do not advocate for the removal of speed limits and STOP signs and red lights and seat belt laws, which also represent the government telling people what to do.  For their, you know, safety.

So, it's all pretty insane.

The fact is that everyone should get vaccinated.  Everyone should.  Did you get DPT and polio vaccines when you were a kid?  They were required for you to go to school.  Do you think your parents were communists or idiots for doing this to you, or alternatively, are you glad you didn't get diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, or polio?

Just get vaccinated.  Don't be foolish.  This problem has been going on for the past year and a half, and it's now getting worse, with the surge almost entirely in unvaccinated people.  Some of them wind up sick, in the hospital, in the ICU, on a ventilator, and now, they want to get vaccinated.  They can't get vaccinated when they're that sick, and it's too late to request it.

Please do yourself, and everyone else, a favor, and get vaccinated.