COVID19 is a deadly virus and VACCINATION is the best way to defend against it. Saving your own life and taking responsibility for your actions to NOT ENDANGER SOMEONE ELSE should be the American way. We have been vaccinating people for a long time with great success and have been envied around the world for it! It's been stated a million times, but it's worth repeating, this vaccine is safe and effective and has been tested now on millions of people. Consistently, almost all ICU patients are not vaccinated.
For the past couple of months, I have been receiving form emails from people demanding the legislature to convene and forbid decisions that health care facilities and companies are making to have employees vaccinated. However, I am starting to receive more emails from people waking up to the fact that this is real and not manufactured. People who are vaccinated talking about doing the responsible thing to protect themselves, their neighbors and co-workers, are writing about their anger over unvaccinated people screaming at the top of their once healthy lungs, taking up all the space in hospitals and driving up cost of care and draining the entire health care system.
For many of us, it is hard to watch people run knowingly into a burning building because they are FREE to do so. If that's the case, then why risk the lives of firefighters too? Freedom and liberty have little to do with that....COMMON SENSE is all that's needed.
And if leaders would come together and put politics aside for this crisis just like we did on 9/11, we may have much better results. We are fighting a battle and an enemy that requires a united front to defeat. I stand with the health care workers and teachers and everyone else on the front lines and ask that we all get vaccinated and follow the CDC guidance that is intended to save our lives and save resources for when absolutely needed.
Let's take responsibility for ourselves to do what is right for others, the Christian thing and responsible thing to do, along with the FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE thing to do. Investing in a vaccine and a piece of cloth for the face is much cheaper and more effective than being sent to the emergency room where a lot of resources will be expended and many times in vain, leaving families devastated and full of regret and anger.
My mother, who died of cancer, looked me in the eye in her own hospital room and said, "don't take your health for granted; it is your greatest asset." I thought of that while on vacation this week, backpacking at 8000 feet thinking about what a blessing it was to be walking along a mountain peak, legs and lungs working to see the expansive views I was privileged to access with a healthy body.
If you know someone who is hesitant to get vaccinated, try to support them and talk with them and share the evidence that vaccines are safe and effective and have been TESTED on millions of people now. Our lives and future together depend on it.
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