But you also have to face the consequences of that refusal
Frankly, I don’t give a fuck if you get you the COVID vaccine.
You have a right to not get a vaccine, even if that decision will kill other people. Hopefully, it will kill you before you kill others. But since you’ll probably insist on going to an emergency room and demanding care you no longer deserve because you could have prevented severe illness, you’ll be infecting others no matter what happens to you.
So, actually, I do care if you get a COVID vaccine. Because you’re putting other people’s lives in danger if you don’t.
If you catch COVID, as the virus replicates, it could produce a variant. That’s the way viruses work. As they replicate, they sometimes mutate. The more virus out there, the more chance of mutation.
The current vaccines won’t necessarily protect us against one of the future variants, putting us all in danger once again. Thanks for that.
The vaccines don’t work on all people. But unlike, say, the shingles vaccine that’s about 75 percent effective, the various COVID vaccines are more than 90 percent effective.
Those with compromised immune systems can’t produce antibodies as well as someone with a normal immune system. Those who’ve received a transplant take immunosuppressants that make it more difficult to produce antibodies. And for some reason, those with diabetes are more prone to bad outcomes after contracting COVID-19.
So yeah, no vaccine works on everyone. But if you catch COVID, you may pass it along to people who can’t protect themselves and others even though they tried. Your refusal to protect yourself is a refusal to protect others. You may kill someone.
But, like I said, you have a right to not get vaccinated, and I don’t care if you do or not.
I love the anti-vax argument that “God will protect us.” As a religious person, I agree that God works in mysterious ways — and sometimes not so mysterious. In this case, God helped people work very fast to produce vaccines that protect against the virus. The mystery? Divine prevention rather than divine cure.
Not for me to understand why God worked this way in this case.
Here’s what I think we should do with the free vaccine we have waiting for you: We should give you just one more month to decide if you want to take it. Set an Oct. 1 deadline. Then we should send all the leftover vaccine to poor counties around the world where people are begging for a shot to protect themselves and their families. Protecting the poor is the godly thing to do, after all, and we’ll never bother you about getting a vaccine again.
And what if you do catch COVID? Stay home. Enjoy your illness. Hopefully you’ll recover. Many do. But our healthcare workers have been through enough this year.
Can’t breathe? Sorry. Feel like you’re dying? You just might.
But just as you have the right to not get the vaccine, healthcare workers have the right to prioritize their time and choose who to care for when they’re overburdened.
With a limited number of nurses and doctors available, some may choose to care for people with other illnesses. Because they have a right to choose who to care for, just like you have a choice whether to take a vaccine. Some may decide their time is better spent curing a child with cancer or caring for an elderly person rushed to the ER after a heart attack.
But remember, you have a right to not get a vaccine and to expose others to your virus.
David Taffet is the senior staff writer for Dallas Voice. Opinions expressed here are his own.
Well said, David
I just think like he said it’s peoples choices but when you talk thinking what you say is ok, and it’s not people just talk out their ass and if the whole unvaccinated people are the ones getting everyone sick that’s not true the vaccinated are the ones also getting people sick so just a reminder think before you speak because no one knows who’s getting who sick these vaccines don’t protect us from the virus it’s all bullshit and they don’t work, everyone thinks they know what they are talking about and in reality they don’t know what to really say, and you don’t make a vaccine in a year or two we are being used as guinea pigs, people are ignorant and just talk shit out of their asses.
CDC. You can contract and spread the virus wether or not vaxed. So give a f%^k you are not outta the woods being vaxed. And as a health professional you should also know a virus is a living entity it adapts in order to survive ie. All the variants coming out. Just like the flu and its many forms. Truth is we will never be able to “get rid of it!” At best we can only control with early treatment antivirals , drug cocktails, and vax.
This is the dumbest article I have ever read
Doctors and scientists have been studying the Covid SARS one virus since 2000 when it was discovered. That was 20 years of data they already had before they made the vaccine. So you need to fact check before you open your mouth.
Where do you get reliable Vaccine info?
Well said .
Oh please! Cry me a river about protecting others. I have Lupus and I will be damned if I’m going in like a lamb to slaughter to get an unapproved vaccine. I have been health as a horse since day one . Why would I trade being healthy for the sickness I have watched others experience after getting the vaccine. Your opinion is just that and it’s unwanted
Were were you born ignorant or just became ignorant? People like you are the reason we are in this SHIT mess. Stay off Fox, and Newsmax,, pleeeze
You’re nothing but an ignorant liberal blaring your voice thru yet another journalistic arm leading us all down the primrose path of socialism.
I believe all of the facts are not fully presented here. If you want people to take an unapproved vaccine, then lift the right to sue the pharmaceutical companies in the case of life altering adverse effects. Furthermore, instead of badgering people for not taking it, be unbiased and present all of the data concerning side effects and deaths. At this point, people are still getting infected even if they are fully vaccinated. Vaccinated people still have to wear masks and get tested. Well, if the vaccine prevents transmission then why the mask mandates? Why the weekly testing that is still encouraged? I find it very funny that we herald science but go against its very principles. We love the scientific method but refuse to follow it in this case. At this time, there is simply not enough evidence nor has there been enough time passed to fairly judge this shot, given that it has been available for less than a year. Even pharmaceutical drugs go through clinical trials before released.
Now, to the opinion about Healthcare refusal to those who don’t take the shot, then by that logic obesed and overweight people should be refused medical care as well. Is it not your responsibility to monitor your own health? What you eat? When you eat? How you eat? Even though consumption of different foods and exercise is a personal choice there are many people that refuse to care for themselves but still fill our medical facilities with appointments and health concerns over illnesses that could’ve been prevented. Diabetes is preventable. High blood pressure is relatively preventable. Obesity is preventable. But yet doctors don’t refuse these people care.
Oh BS! That vaccine has also killed people! I refuse to be vaccinated and leave my children with no parent! Being that my husband passed in April! We get groceries and come home. So, all you poor me people … go to hell! You don’t dictate what other humans put in their bodies’ maybe you all should stay home, ya know since this virus is going to mutate into, who knows 100 different viruses!!?! You make no sense and should stay out of other peoples decisions! Ty
Again, in the interest of truth, science and facts: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
I will not be intimidated by anyone, when it’s been a few years an the actual results are in an it’s been approved by all the FDA, CDC and all the other ones then I might consider it. People today believe everything they are told. Wake up folks this shit is not what it is . To each his own. You can’t make a vaccine that will work. Wake the Fuck up .
Uneducated!! And certainly not a Godley attitude towards people. Wow!!!
You actually wrote this garbage? Too bad it’s not on paper so I could at least line a birdcage with it. Zero science but it’s not about science anymore. You wacko cult members can enjoy your face muzzles and useless toxic jabs. I actually don’t care even though the vaxxed are filling the hospitals.
Hospitals that prioritize treating patients with COVID-19 who turn away patients who don’t get vaccinated do have a moral obligations to advise the patients on where to receive care. My suggestion is to advise them to contact FOX News for medical care for COVID-19 and also Republican politicians who downplay getting vaccinated (but of course they and their families were secretly vaccinated) as well as well as fighting against mask wearing mandates
Love this, David. I for one, however, do not think that anyone should have the right to refuse the vaccine. We do not have the right to refuse to wear a seatbelt. Why? Because it is the law and not wearing one may kill you. We do not have the right to take a weapon on an airplane. Why? Because it is the law and by doing so, many innocent people may die. We do not have the right to remove our clothes in public, because it is offensive to some. But not wearing a mask is deadly to many. Why is there not a law mandating mask wearing? There are many laws which protect us and which we have no right to refuse. And to those who believe God is the only needed protection, then I say give up your guns, leave your doors unlocked at night, forget about things such as sunscreen, vitamins, chemotherapy, home smoke detectors, your insulin, security cameras, coats during winter, and any little thing that keeps you safe. And why don’t we all do this if we believe in God? Because my God, gave me the best protection of all. Reason. God gave ne the knowledge and judgement to protect myself, my family, my friends, and those with whom I come into daily contact. Please, for the love of God, get vaccinated and wear a mask.
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Right. So by your logic, women shouldn’t be allowed to get an abortion and murder an unborn child. 🙄🙄🙄 Look, another ignorant statement. Do you idiots even think before you reply?
You are a moron, too!
Y’all are so damn dumb and must want to live in a dictatorship country
You for one should live in North Korea and let them dictate your life. That would be a good start. The whole point if living in the United States is to escape these over steps of government. Yet we are failing in the name of safety. It’s rediclios when as a person you should have the freedom of choice. And the laws you speak of are over steps . Problem with the society today is the want to blame others and not take responsibility for their ones self. As far as claiming unvacinated people are the problem. Don’t forget that vaccinated people pass it along as well. So if you want to stay safe then make sure you stay safe. It’s no one else’s responsibility but yours
You think it is ok to penetrate someone’s body against their will and inject something they don’t want into them that might have long term affects down the road? Sounds alot like rape to me.
You have no idea of what the vaccine has in it!
My sentiments exactly, David. As a healthcare professional myself, I took an oath to treat others, but I will tell you that it is very difficult to stay true to that oath these days. Why should I spend my time on some anti-vaxer who refuses to wear a mask? Personal responsibility people! That’s what trumplicans yell from the highest pile of shit they can find, so suck it up and maybe die off before you have time to infect the rest of us. I’m done with them.
By the same argument a lot of people go to emergency rooms needing care fir severe illness like strokes, heart attacks, COPD, diabetic crises, that they could have prevented by not eating a high fat, high salt or high sugar diet or not smoking. How do you feel they should be treated when they have serious illness because of their choices?
They do not endanger others unlike anti-vaxxer.
It is a personal choice on rather or not to get vaccinated. When doctors and healthcare facilities treat patients based on their vaccinated status , it is discriminatory and going again the Hippocactic oath. First and most importantly, if someone is vaccinated, why are they even in the hospital? From my understanding, there are a lot of fully vaccinated patients in the hospital. The insurgent of the virus did not take off until month of July. In July, there was the largest influx of immigrants in Texas crossing the borders. These people are coming over and they are sick and not being tested and being allowed to roam throughout the population. Plus, the vaccine break through is coming from the heavily vaccinated population is due to the virus has gotten familiar with the vaccines and that’s what create variants. It is no different from the over use of antibiotics, if there is an over useage of antibiotics, it will create a Super bug. So, it’s not the unvaccinated spreading the virus , it’s a combination of factors.
This guy is a complete idiot. The vaccine is not tested for long term effectiveness. Nor does anyone know how long natural immunity lasts. So saying that not getting an untested and unverified vaccine will probably kill someone is just an ignorant statement of a left wing liberal trying to scare the public into conforming and submitting to an ever increasingly Communist government.
100% agree! I would like to give him my dose so he can feel extra safe!
HE IS A FREAKING MORON!!! F HIM. AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON!!!
You’re ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOTIC MORONS. LMAO…. ARE YA AFRAID??? YOU SHOULD BE IF YOU DONT WANT TO END UP LIKE ALL THOSE MURDERED BY THE NAZIS. IT WILL HAPPEN TO US ALL BECAUSE OF IDIOTS LIKE YOU.
I, and everyone else, have a 3% chance of getting a virus that has a 99.8% survival rate. But OMG OMG OMG OMG GET THE VAXX THE HAS NO LONG TERM TESTING DONE! fuck off.
I was going to leave a comment but it’s not worth my time. But I will say good luck with this so-called vaccine it should get full approval very soon instead of emergency use and God Bless you, David for your comments and expression of freedom of speech.
As a Frontline healthcare worker I can tell you, for a fact, this vaccine has significant risk to ones personal health. The vaccine is not effective at preventing the virus or serious illness as half of admitted Covid patients are fully vaccinated, in many areas where vaccine rates are higher, it is as high as 78% of those hospitalized. It has also been confirmed that fully vaccinated are responsible for 40-50% if the spread of the virus. At this point the vaccine is useless and not worth the significant health risks that could come along with it.
In the interest of science and truth and to avoid the possibility of DallasVoice.com being used to spread misinformation willy-nilly, we feel it is incumbent to note that those commenting here claiming the COVID vaccines are ineffective at best and dangerous at worse are wrong.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html
Stick it
This man is INSANE, and the fact we literally have people on here saying individuals shouldn’t have a choice on whether they want to get an experimental treatment, where the human trials are being done on humanity, right now as we speak, is even crazier. Imagine a person overdosing and not being able to get emergency medical care. Obesity is responsible for the majority of deaths in this country, why don’t we stop wasting money treating them too. In fact, let’s stop treating all the cancer patients that smoked or ate meat, and there should be no problem making all abortion illegal since it’s no longer my body my choice, right? The only reason people are demanding mass vaccination is because you think it will stop Covid. Covid like the flu and common cold will NEVER go away. It will continue to mutate every year, and there will be a new vaccine every year, for a virus that has a 98% recovery rate? The only thing driving this lunacy is the fear perpetuated by the Marxist propaganda machine we call the news, and social media. Even if every single person was vaccinated, we’d still have Covid hospitalizations, deaths, and likely far more mutations. The vaccinated are just as dangerous and perceptible as the unvaccinated if not more so. You’re not saving anyone, so get off your self righteous soap box, and do some research that doesn’t include the BS being shoved down your throats 24/7. Don’t worry, booster shots are coming for you trusted “vaccine” who’s efficacy has dropped to 42% and falling. You can take that poison once a week if you want, I will NEVER take it, and if it was as effective as you say, it wouldn’t bother you either way.
This guy is a complete idiot. He didn’t even proofread what he typed. Moron and should just go away.
To be quite honest we don’t give a fuck if you give a fuck. If it wasn’t for the social safety nets protecting you and your type natural selection would have thinned the population long ago. There’s a name for you people. Educated idiots. Good luck in these next couple years. You’re going to need it
The purpose of this essay is to insult people and inflame emotions. The purpose is not to foster responsible, civil discourse about an issue.
There are legitimate and serious concerns that many people have about receiving a vaccine that has only been approved for ‘emergency’ use only.
The readers of this publication are done a disservice when the editor chooses petty, juvenile rhetoric over thoughtful and informed analysis. We should be having a sincere conversation about bodily autonomy, individual liberty, and social responsibility. Instead we get click-bait like this to generate revenue for a slowly dying newspaper.
I like to see comments how one explain to a child what the f### means.
This is an LGBTQ newspaper for LGBTQ adults and their allies. Adults usually understand what that word means.
Fred,
The Dallas Voice does not care about children, nor any basic standards of journalistic decency.
They devolved into a niche publication that caters exclusively to angry, hateful, ill-informed far-left antagonizers about seven years ago.
They are nothing more than a clickbait rag focused on being immature and hyper sexualized. The President of the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization is under investigation for his role in helping to smear Andrew Cuomo’s accusers. But the Voice has failed to report on this important story. They are not a serious newspaper anymore.
https://getoutspoken.com/gay-inc/hrc-launches-investigation-into-alphonso-davids-role-in-cuomo-scandal
Actually, you are wrong: https://dallasvoice.com/damning-n-y-ag-report-on-cuomo-ensnares-hrc-president/
Actually Tammye, you are wrong.
HRC has hired an outside law firm to investigate its President.
The report you link to is literally almost two weeks old. It was published before HRC began investigating its president.
Again, as I pointed out, the Dallas Voice has failed to report that HRC is investigating its President. In fact the report you link to actually states “ Meanwhile, the board of the Human Rights Campaign has shown no sign of turning on David. In fact, HRC announced it renewed David’s contract on his two-year anniversary for five more years.”
Once Tammy, you are simply wrong. Again, the Dallas has has failed, in fact, to report that HRC is investigating its own President.
You clearly said that we did not report this. I provided you with the link showing quite conclusively that we did report it. As soon as we heard about it.
As far as HRC investigating David, I had not seen that news yet, but would gladly have noted that when I did. And by the way, good for them; such allegations should be thoroughly investigated.
No Tammy,
You are wrong, you did not report, and still have not reported that HRC is investigating its own President.
You have misrepresented my statement.
The “important” story that I reference in my comment was the story of how HRC is investigating its own President.
Again, the truth matters. Please set the record straight and do not misrepresent what I wrote. I was clearly referencing HRC investigating its own President. Something you have still failed to report on. Perhaps you need to take an English class to learn syntax and context. As well, you should consider taking an ethics class.
OK. One more time. You said: “The President of the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization is under investigation for his role in helping to smear Andrew Cuomo’s accusers. But the Voice has failed to report on this important story. ” You did not say “under investigation by HRC, his own organization.” I provided you with a link showing you that we had, indeed, included coverage of the fact that Alphonso David had been caught up in the Cuomo investigation, You replied to point out that we had not noted that he is being investigated by HRC for any possible role in the Cuomo affair. I said you were right, that I had not yet seen that info and that the Voice had not reported that information — not because we have any need or want to hide that info, but because we have been focused on more local issues and had not seen that info. I also pointed out that HRC SHOULD investigate and SHOULD ensure Alphonso David was not involved in any improprieties. And if he were, then he should be forced to step down.
As for English and syntax and ethics, you first Person Who Isn’t Willing to Publicly Attach Their Actual Name to Their Accusations and Opinions. And by the way, you misspelled my name.
Ms. Nash,
The only investigation that Alphonso David is under is the one being conducted by HRC. At no other time, nor by any other entity, is or was he being investigated. The investigation referenced in the Washington Blade report you published is of Andrew Cuomo, not Alphonso David. I believe you are wholly confused. Inadvertently omitting one letter from someone’s name, after previously having spelled it correctly is not the same thing as misrepresenting someone’s remarks. I do not disclose my personal identity because that is my right to remain anonymous. You should respect that. There is no need for you to behave like an angry teenager. Grow up and report the news.
Rant on, Person Who Doesn’t Want Their Name Affiliated With Their Own Opinions and Comments. At least you know your voice is being heard, even tho no one knows whose voice it is.
And I add this in all seriousness: I am glad that you are able to come to this website and express your opinions, whether you do so anonymously or not, and whether I agree with you or not.
When punks and school yard bullies pretend to be journalists.
Not getting vaccinated is like grabbing the hands of two other people and dragging them across a busy street without looking for traffic. God gave us brains to use, and nearly all those who are hospitalized with covid now are unvaccinated. The vaccines drastically reduce the risk of getting covid and the severity in vaccinated people who get it.
Honest, timely, and well written article.