2021 - Vancouver - White Rock - COVID-19 Protest

This day included a WTF moment.

 

Covidiots were out in high drama at Memorial Park by White Rock’s museum building.

 

Definition of Covidiots:

Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety.

 

Basically, a covidiot doesn’t take COVID-19 and the risks of the virus seriously, despite what government officials and the global health community say.

 

At the same time, they may also engage in selfish behavior that doesn’t look out for the greater good when it comes to slowing down and stopping the spread of the coronavirus.

 

A list of Covidiot symptoms:

 

* Extraordinary sense of self importance - ego on steroids, oh yeh.

* Generally low I.Q. - who added this trait, but - - -

* Naturally attracted to toilet paper - in large quantities.

* Predominant diet of pasta - more selfish hoarding behaviour.

* Has no idea of personal space - and do you smell bad, back off.

 

Treatment: No effective anti-idiot drug currently available.

 

Enough frivolity.

 

Here we are, a year and counting, with COVID-19 “D” variant slithering down our air passageway and these dam idiots come along and spew their shit. Give your head a shake you blockheads.

 

Remember, on social media, myths spreed deeper and faster than truth. Even small exposure to falsehoods make people less likely to want a COVID-19 vaccine shot.

 

Apparently two thirds of unvaccinated adults believe at least one vaccine lie. The outcomes of believing in pseudo-science, deception, bogus health-care claims, scams, misinformation and fake doctors can be catastrophic.

 

The poor dears are so tired of covering their mouths and noses. We hear this constantly.

 

Infringing on their rights, get real, how about my right to be protected from you. You selfish shitheads. If you don't like the mask, you definitely won't like the ventilator.

 

It’s time for governments (politicians) to grow a spine and get tough. There needs to be consequences for not getting vaccinated.

 

To make one thing clear, vaccinated people are not as likely to get and spread the coronavirus as unvaccinated people. Vaccines work remarkably well.

 

I pity the heath care workers, emergency responders and business employees who already face enough risks on the job without having to worry about these imbeciles they have to deal with on a daily basis.

 

Give these people a break you dickheads, just put on a damn mask when required and go get vaccinated, immediately.

 

Poor babies. These malcontents are God Dam lucky they weren't living during the 1918 flu pandemic.

 

It is estimated one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

 

Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years plus. The high mortality in healthy people, including the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.

 

With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings.

 

And here we are today with a proven, effective vaccine defence and yet too many “intelligent” (?) assholes are ignoring the plea to get vaccinated or wear masks.

 

It’s good a shift by companies & some governments are taking the lead on requiring employees be vaccinated before returning to the office environment.

 

It’s high time for a national vaccine immunization certificate.

 

If they or any of the loved ones of this bunch of malcontents wind up in hospital with COVID-19, just maybe they’ll figure out what assholes holes they are. Oh yes, they will expect and receive the best of public health care regardless.

 

OK, if you have a legitimate medial exemption (a hand written note from your veterinary doesn’t qualify) as to why you can not be vaccinated, you are absolved.

 

We are in a race against the clock to vaccinate enough people to avoid a fourth wave of the pandemic - come on go get vaccinated!!

 

Guess what, the latest US figures from CDC show 99% of current USA COVID deaths are people unvaccinated, Canada’s statistics are not much different.

 

You super spreading dummies, go get a vaccine. The pandemic has become a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

 

Jesus H Christ, don’t get me started.

 

And do not forget, COVID variant “L” is waiting in the wings to surge into a variant of concern and we are only a few variants away that will evade existing vaccines.

 

“It sounds like you're fearful of the possible side effects of the vaccine. And that makes sense.".

Not on your life but let’s humour you anyway.

 

"It seems like you don't trust the pharmaceutical companies that are producing the vaccines. I understand that"

 

"You're worried that we don't have long-term data on the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines. I get that."

 

“It sounds like you and I want people to be both healthy and free from coercion. And this virus is sort of pitting those values against each other, and I'm coming down more strongly on the side of health, and you appear to value freedom more.

 

I hear your concerns about your health. And actually, I'm in favor of vaccination because I think it will give us all more freedom."

 

Go get yourself vaccinated.

 

Vancouver Sun 19 August 2021:

By Pete McMartin:

 

Enough is enough. I'm done with all of the COVID-19 skeptics

Opinion: I’m done with those whose ignorance of science is so profound and intractable that, rather than heeding the advice of scientists, doctors and virologists, they put their trust in celebrities, politicians and quacks.

 

Pete McMartin is done with those who are so mentally lazy that they refuse to trust in anything beyond hearsay, urban legend, apocrypha, conservative wing-nut provocateurs and the whole digital witch-doctor network of chat rooms, Facebook forums and the first hit that pops up on their Google searches that are designed to reaffirm their ignorance rather than challenge it.

 

Enough.

 

I’m done.

 

 

I’m done with those whose fear of vaccinations arises from studies that were long ago peer-disproved and retracted.

 

I’m done with those whose ignorance of science is so profound and intractable that, rather than heeding the advice of scientists, doctors and virologists, they put their trust in celebrities, politicians and quacks who, unable to tell the difference between their outsized egos and reality, and who in the face of reason and the damage they leave in their wake, continue to spout self-aggrandizing bullshit in the dangerous belief that their notoriety somehow gives them a platform from which to spout lies to a credulous public.

 

I’m done with those who are so mentally lazy that they refuse to trust in anything beyond hearsay, urban legend, apocrypha, conservative wing-nut provocateurs and the whole digital witch-doctor network of chat rooms, Facebook forums and the first hit that pops up on their Google searches that are designed to reaffirm their ignorance rather than challenge it.

 

I’m done with those who believe political beliefs are the same thing as incontrovertible facts.

 

I’m done with those who demonize science and scientists.

 

I’m done with those who are so fuelled by their sense of resentment that they see the ongoing pandemic as a manifestation of class war rather than a war against reason, which they themselves have prosecuted.

 

I’m done with those who believe we all have our version of reality, because no, we don’t all have our own version of reality. Singular undeniable realities exist. The earth is round. COVID-19 has killed millions. There are no microchips in vaccines. Vaccines are not designed by governments, Bill Gates or the Illuminati to harvest your DNA, track your movements or enslave you. There is no conspiracy here other than the one designed to save your miserable, undeserving life. That is reality. Deal with it.

 

I’m done with conspiracies and those who believe in them. You think the world believes you are important enough to conspire against? Believe me, it doesn’t.

 

I’m done with those whose fear of vaccinations is so rigid and unthinking that, as an unintended consequence of their ignorance, they would drag us back into the Third World by helping to resuscitate polio and whooping cough and mumps and measles — all those diseases that used to kill and maim children by the hundreds of thousands not three generations ago. They do this even though they had been vaccinated in their youth for those very things, and they would do this while the citizens of the Third World, begging for vaccines, are dying by the thousands.

 

I’m done with any person, government or business that would coddle anti-vaxxers, or who, like desperate parents trying to entice a spoiled child to eat his vegetables, would offer them tax breaks, lottery tickets or beer as rewards for getting vaccinated.

 

I’m done with rewarding dangerous, antisocial behaviour rather than punishing it.

 

I’m done with governments that can’t stay on message, that speak in euphemism rather than plain, honest language, that quail at the thought of mandates, that change health protocols without any seeming rationale, and that take their cues from the Chamber of Commerce rather than public health agencies — all while acting as if we can massage ourselves out of this endless loop of economic disruption, misery and death we have been trapped in for the past two years by applying the old tried and true political manipulations, in which the greatest sin is to do anything that might cause you to be voted out of office.

 

I’m done with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who, while literally weaponizing themselves by refusing to get vaccinated and putting other lives in danger as surely as if they were carrying a loaded gun, see themselves as brave freedom fighters protecting their constitutional freedoms, not because they believe in equality, but because they believe exactly the opposite, that their rights are preeminent over all others.

 

I’m done with anyone who characterizes people who wear masks, social-distance and get vaccinated as “sheeple.”

 

I’m done with those who complain about wearing masks, as if having to wear a piece of fabric designed to stop the inhalation of a deadly virus was akin to torture. I’m especially done with the puerile idiots who compare wearing a mask to Jews having to wear a Star of David during the Holocaust. It isn’t a mask these fools should be wearing, but a muzzle.

 

I’m done with those who, after a visit to the intensive care unit and death’s door, experience their moment of revelation that, yes, they are so sorry that they didn’t get vaccinated because — with the usual egocentricity and selfishness that characterizes anti-vaxxer sentiment — they could have died rather than, you know, the untold number of people their stupidity put at risk.

 

Other than those with legitimate health concerns or compromised immune systems, I’m done with trying to understand, accommodate or politely tolerate anti-vaxxers, or those who are just too stupid, tuned out or unconcerned with the health and safety of others to get vaccinated.

 

I’m done with living life in limbo, with the hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the hundreds of thousands more to come, with the travel bans, with the slow-motion unravelling of the economy, with the dispiriting and seemingly endless pattern of peak, trough and peak, and with the only variance in life coming with the arrival of the virus’s latest reincarnation.

 

I’m done because all of this terrible nightmare we are trapped in could have been avoided.

 

mcmartincharles@gmail.com

 

Pete McMartin is a former Vancouver Sun columnist.

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