By Bela “Bill’ Suhayda
Sugar Grove, Ill.
I’m beginning to realize who among us would have hidden Anne Frank and who would have turned her in to the Nazis. Mandates carry more weight these days than laws or constitutional rights. How close are we to putting bounties on the heads of citizens for behavior considered, by government, to be reckless to their neighbors’ health? How long before government gestapo hauls individuals away for having a party?
Constitutional rights are gone. Will they ever return? We are well into the second year of this insanity. We have traded our freedom for the illusion of trying to create a safe world. I look at our country today and hear people saying very disturbing things. Some suggest denying hospital care to those who resist vaccinations. Some wish death on those who exercise their natural right to keep things they consider dangerous out of their bodies.
Those who exercise skepticism and their natural rights, are called despicable names. They get ridiculed by those who believe the same as (The Voice columnist) Wayne Johnson believes (see page 6 this week for his column). Government threatens to prevent citizens their natural and even civil liberties to fully participate in society, unless they obey COVID mandates. A once free people who used to give government authority with their vote, are now the subject of government scorn.
Last month the Joe Biden administration announced a plan to give booster shots to millions of Americans. It was never explained why it is necessary, or scientifically viable. We were simply told it was going to happen. Scientists at the Federal Drug & Food Administration (FDA) were not told about it in advance.
Many resigned in protest when they heard. Then a former Facebook Board member, now COVID czar, Jeff Zients, announced there was a public official who had decided this strategy. Dr. Rochelle Wolenski, not a scientist, but a Biden appointee, overruled the science and the scientists at the FDA who had voted 16-2 against booster shots.
Getting vaccinated doesn’t guarantee you won’t contract COVID. Masks only slow the rate of infections and don’t stop infection and 99.98% survive this virus. The elderly run the highest risks.
Biden argues it is the unvaccinated who pose the greatest threat to Americans. It is the same president who will have allowed hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated illegals to be bussed and flown everywhere across this country to infect Americans. Biden argues the hospitals are being overrun by COVID patients. This same president has caused a huge exodus of nurses to leave hospitals, indeed the profession, with his mandate for all of them to be vaccinated or be fired. Nurses are among those who understand the science, the vaccines and the risk to COVID. They have run the risk of contracting COVID even before vaccines were available. Now Many reject the mandate and the vaccine. Has Media asked them why they are doing it?
We live in an imperfect world. It has been shown vaccines do not fully protect us from this virus.
Masks only slow down infection rates. Distancing and shutdowns have created chaos and misery, not solutions. Most victims contract this virus in the home. The vaccines we have today will not protect us from the variants. We will live with this virus. The virus is here to stay.
Stop the name calling. Stop the hate. Stop the misinformation and the politicizing of this virus. Stop the fear mongering. Stop the mandates. Stop pitting one group of Americans against another. Dr. Anthony Fauci, should stop any experimentation which may lead us to yet other pandemics. Let’s start acting like adults instead of tyrannical, buffoons.
Let’s get back to legal immigration which prevents infected people with all types of diseases from entering this country. Let’s treat all citizens with the same rights and privileges they deserve and punish those who have used this pandemic to profit from it or used it for their advantage.