On May 19, the Washington Post ran an op-ed by James Hohmann titled “Don’t Pay People To Get the Covid Vaccine. Shame Them.” The Post has changed the title of this piece to “The Moral Hazard of Vaccine Giveaways,” but I’m afraid they’ve already let their real message leak out. Besides, the original title is still in the article’s URL.
Shame those anti-science morons who refuse to follow the government-recommended procedure of protecting themselves against a disease they are extremely unlikely to get with an emergency-use authorization vaccine that has not been tested over a significant period of time. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” says the Washington Post masthead, as they gleefully run around unscrewing light bulbs.
It never fails to impress people on both sides of the debate how we can start with the same premise and reach such different conclusions. In this case, Hohmann starts with an historically correct observation about Polio: “People recognized Jonas Salk’s 1953 breakthrough . . . for the miracle it was. Parents raced to inoculate their kids to spare them from the iron lung.” The government “did not need to bribe anyone to take the Polio vaccine.”
But people aren’t similarly running to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Huh.
Hohmann cites a recent poll showing one in four Americans probably or definitely will not take the vaccine. Given that Biden’s handlers say they expect to have 70 percent of Americans inoculated by July, we can gather by that time basically everyone who is willing to take it voluntarily will have done so. So what’s wrong with everyone else?
I look at this situation and conclude that perhaps Polio and COVID-19 aren’t analogous, and that the relative importance of taking the two vaccines may be different.
[Interesting Read]
See Also:
(1) Covid cases falling in the parts of India that approved Ivermectin use
(2) Don’t tell Fauci: More evidence for ivermectin
(3) What Really Happened With that Weird Yankees COVID Outbreak
(5) Toxicologist To CDC: COVID Vaccines May ‘Sterilize An Entire Generation’
