The Federal Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated
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Alternately: lie. Highly doubt doctors' offices are going to demand vaccination records and verify they're legitimate for everyone who walks through their door.
Then you get the "this person is vaccinated" code, it works its way through the EMR system, and you launder your "official" status that way.
If they demand to see it: "Have to see if I can find the card; I think I threw it in a shoebox at home after all these places stopped requiring it. No I don't know who to contact to get a replacement; it was some vaccination bus thing they set up in the parking lot at work". Channel your inner "left side of the IQ bell curve" self; these people deal with that lot all day, every day.
I like the non-compliance option as much as anyone, but it's a bit of a luxury position to be in; and people who don't have that luxury deserve options too.
I saw/heard a receptionist at a doctor's office (not even something relevant - it was an eye doctor) extremely aggressively harangue some old bloke about "not having his proof" that he was vaccinated, mid last year...
After seeing that display, I just refused to play ball. I don't think I even answered the question.
It wasn't quite "go and get fucked", but I came damn close...
If nothing else, the last 3 or so years have really shown that if you give ordinary people even the slightest bit of power over their fellow citizens, combined with fear, they are extremely likely to use and abuse it...
Everyone makes their choice. I would have to drive 5 hours to see an eye doctor in another state, because I refuse to wear a mask as required by state dictate.
Rebellion has costs. In other forms of rebellion this is recognized, and sympathizers provide aid and comfort to rebels and their families. I see nothing of the sort offered in this case, so in recognition of that I provide an option to rebel that requires no such aid and comfort be provided.
If that changes, my position would change.
Fair enough, but the object of the rebellion needs to bear at least some of the costs well, or they will never need to change.
Side note: when I see things like that, some deeply suppressed anger within me comes to the surface, and it can quite surprise people that beneath that facade, I'm absolutely ready to give back as good as I get (particularly when I see some fuckhead picking on a vulnerable individual, like above)...
Sometimes that has consequences (unfortunately), because petty tyrants "in power" really don't like it when you stand up to them (like abusive bosses, for example). But still, it's probably good that somewhere under my layers of snivelling cowardice there is a fair amount of rage contained... I guess.
People exhibiting that kind of passive fealty are what created this mess.
How about just understanding what is actually worth living for and be willing to die for it? You might actually appreciate your life.
Nah, I’ll just be a pussy without virtue of any kind.
I can't even update my eyeglass prescription because my state requires people to wear masks in all healthcare settings, and I refuse to wear one. I am intimately aware of the cost of passive fealty and the mess created by it.
I also remember photos of that Canadian guy crying while receiving an injection he didn't want while wearing a hand-written "I do not consent" sign on his chest. Because the only options he had were "get an injection you don't want" or "be unable to feed your family".
What other options is the side telling people to "stand up and stop being a pussy" providing for guys like that to continue feeding their families? In war armies pay their soldiers. In rebellions sympathetic towns and neighbors provide aid and comfort to families of freedom fighters.
There are people willing and able to take the risk without that aid and comfort, and God bless them for it. That isn't everyone. And in the absence of that aid and comfort, at least mine is an option that isn't "comply" or "starve".
We're all just dancing around the fourth option which is morally justified but cannot be named except obliquely: reciprocity.
Reciprocity is great for those in a position to (eg.) refuse to hire or do business with the vaccinated. Though the state would likely be on them like a hot potato for Civil Rights and/or ADA violations. So we're again back to "what aid and comfort is being offered to those who would dare reciprocate and face reprisal?"