I have noticed how, from time to time, some bloggers like to post a bunch of cartoons they have discovered on the internet. Cartoons are meant to be funny but it is hard to laugh at the following five for painfully obvious reasons, including death, rising infection numbers, overwhelming hospital admissions and sheer defencelessness. We owe it to our fellow human beings and to overstretched hospital staff to get fully vaccinated. "One for all and all for one," as Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan frequently pledged...
That about sums up the situation in America. It's all about their "free-dumbs" as I like to say.
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DeleteDepressing really but the cartoons are a great historical record of what happened over the period of the ongoing pandemic. I do like the cartoon with the bloke being concerned about the effect of vaccine on his health.
ReplyDeleteIheard a woman on BBC Radio 4 talking about her ex-husband who refuses vaccination. "When he was boozing every night at the local pub and smoking twenty cigarettes a day, his body was not a temple then!"
DeleteDespite all the evidence suggesting the efficacy of the vaccines, I will always uphold the right of people to decline vaccination.
ReplyDeletePeople actively do unhealthy or dangerous things all. the. time and we still support them when the worst happens. Vax status should be the same
I think that belonging to a society brings certain responsibilities.
DeleteI have an anti-vaxxer acquaintance and three times already he has brought up some falsehood which I have politely shot down and explained why it isn't true. All three times he said that was interesting and he wasn't aware of the truth but then has gone home and continued to post the same falsehoods on social media.
ReplyDeleteAnt-vaxxers also have a shared resistance when it comes to truth.
DeleteI especially like the guy eating and smoking. People don't even understand how the vaccines work and yet they are willing to die for their beliefs. Not only that, but most of them have already been vaccinated in childhood for one thing or another. Smallpox is a thing of the past thanks to vaccines; I still have the scar on my arm from the smallpox vaccination I got as a child. God save us from ignorance.
ReplyDeleteGood point about the vaccines we receive as children,
DeleteThese make me both mad and sad.
ReplyDeleteUnderstandable.
DeleteSad but true.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
DeleteThere are many great cartoons out there . You've found five of them.
ReplyDeleteIf only they would change some anti-vaxxers minds.
DeleteWould these anti-vaxxers sing a different song if they were denied the right to the vaccine? There will always be dissenters, which is their choice. It's putting innocent people at risk through their selfishness that I can't understand.
ReplyDeleteWe often say that people have a right to their own opinions but when those opinions threaten the lives of fellow citizens then I am sceptical about such declarations.
DeleteThey don't consider those at risk. It's all about their freedom and their right to choose.
DeleteIt's as if they are all members of The Clever Dick Club.
DeleteI am certainly not one of the rabid anti-vaxxers, however there are some serious questions regarding the COVID vaccine. Surely the prime measure of effectiveness of a vaccine is that it protects the vaccinated individual from getting infected - on this score the COVID vaccine falls short. This analysis of UK Gov data on infected people indicates that the vaccinated appear to be more rather than less likely to catch the virus. https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/07/vaccine-effectiveness-plummets-to-as-low-as-minus-151-as-omicron-cancels-out-boost-from-third-doses/
DeleteThe editor of "The Daily Sceptic" is one Toby Daniel Moorsom Young whose credentials for balanced journalism and sensible reporting on COVID are dubious to say the least. Perhaps you are him "Unknown".
DeleteHowever, that particular analysis of government data was done by Will Jones....
DeleteSome "researchers" form their conclusions first and then make the "data" arrive at the desired conclusions. This is characteristic of "The Daily Sceptic".
DeleteAs a former PhD analytical chemist, and having looked at the gov/ONS data, there does seem to be a significant excess of vaccinated hospital admissions over unvaccinated, even allowing for relative populations.
DeletePerhaps this is because vaccinated people feel safer so go out more to places where they may then be exposed to the virus.
DeleteWe can all play around with numbers. They do not always reveal the full picture.
DeletePolitical cartoons are definitely NOT supposed to be funny. They are supposed to represent the artist's view. These do that very well.
ReplyDeleteSometimes a political cartoon really gets to the nub of things.
DeleteSad but true.
ReplyDeleteTick.
DeleteI agree with you. I wouldn't care if the anti-vaxxers made their decisions based on sound information but they've not got a science degree to rub between them. They would prefer to believe in the mumbo Jumbo that comes out of America than scientific fact. You can't educate stupid.
ReplyDeleteI have even read one dangerously foolish sceptic saying that it is not COVID that has killed people or given them long COVID, it's the vaccinmes! Breathtaking ignorance.
DeleteSometimes we laugh to keep from crying. I've noted that even intelligent people can be stupid and you know the old saying... you can't fix stupid.
ReplyDeleteAs for that first cartoon: Some think those seeking admittance to the hospital should be questioned about their vaccination status. After all, isn't triage all about concentrating on those who have the best chance of survival? Seems harsh, but...
It is hard to feel any sympathy but I would just say that many of them are victims of social media which they did not create and do not control.
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