Yes, I’ve finally made it to the big time. After all my years of acting on stage, as an extra in Hollywood films, or as a principle in industrial films for Bell Labs and others, I get recognized for receiving my COVID vaccination. And because I’m wearing my glasses, you can’t even see the tears in my eyes. However, if I had noticed the NBC cameras, I would have taken the opportunity to stand up and perform the Hamlet soliloquy.
Speaking of opportunity, there is still a significant number of boneheads (sorry, anti-vaxxers) out there who refuse to get a free COVID vaccination, or even wear a mask. Interestingly, they’re dying at a rate of 99-to-1 compared to those of us who do get vaccinated. That’s fine. We live in a free society and if they’re happy to go around infecting each other and pushing up daises courtesy of the Delta variant, who am I to infringe on their freedom? Too bad, so sad. These anti-vaxxers should be forever grateful their parents, or grandparents had enough sense get them vaccinated against smallpox and polio, or they might be walking around in an iron lung today. Try wearing Speedos over that.
It is a bit of a joke, though, that the those they look to for information on how to live their lives mask-free and blowing off the vaccination, such as the Mar-A-Lago Miscreant, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, et al, have been vaccinated, while they convince their viewers not to get a life-saving shot. It’s the old do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrisy rearing its ugly head. Uncle Sam should take all the vaccines that would have gone to the anti-vaxxers and give it to those in the U.S. who want the vaccine but have limited, or no access, to it. Give it to those in other countries who are desperate to get vaccinated, but can’t. When anti-vaxxers get the COVID Delta variant and need hospitalization, insurance companies should refuse to pay their medical bills. A vaccine might look a little better to them. Our health-care workers shouldn’t have to be stressed taking care of the individuals (did I say boneheads?) who easily could have prevented their own infections.
Speaking of ugly heads, the latest and most ridiculous QAnon theory circulating is that COVID vaccines are infused with liquid magnets. When vaccinated, you can then be controlled through these Internet towers set up all around the country by a nefarious individual such as a democrat, Hello Kitty or Chiquita Banana. I saw a video of a woman up at a podium espousing this nonsense as fact to a crowd of slack-jawed individuals. She stated you can tell if you’ve been injected with magnets or kryptonite or a ’53 Dodge engine block by putting something metal on your body and watching to see if it sticks. She pressed a key on her breastbone and it stuck, which in itself was funny because keys are brass and wouldn’t be attracted to a magnet anyway. She tried to adhere it to her cheek and forehead and it didn’t work.
What’s funny (sticking with the humor theme because there hasn’t been much so far) is that I’ve been doing this kind of thing with my kids and granddaughter for years. Things such as sticking a spoon on my nose or coins on my forehead. I used to play poker with friends and one game we played after consuming mass quantities of alcohol was Indian Poker. It involved each player sticking a playing card on his forehead. No problem, no magnetism involved. A thumbtack, maybe.
Here’s a real life example for you. Stare real hard at this sentence. You’ll see that, right now, I have a penny stuck on my forehead. It’s not magnetism. It’s just adhesion from perspiration, body oil, and the Earth’s tectonic plates shifting. Besides, because a penny is copper, a magnet wouldn’t hold it on. Oh, those whacky anti-vaxxers. If this aforementioned woman wanted to make her point, she should have stuck an iron lung to her chest.
Before I go, I’d like to comment on something that a regular “Reader’s Commentary” contributor contributed a couple editions back. He smugly pointed out that one of the predictions Al Gore had made years ago in “An Inconvenient Truth” book and movie concerning a point on the environmental disaster time line hadn’t come to fruition by the date Al said it would. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sufficiently motivated to go back and read through this contributor’s so-called expert analysis to see exactly what he wrote. In any case, if you readers are so inclined, go online or to the Library and find a copy of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Watch it again. You’ll see that the environmental events he outlined are happening now. Not only are they inconvenient, but scary. I wonder if this contributing reader has an iron lung stuck to his forehead?
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