Editorial: Vaxx or stay home

Photo Courtesy of Sky Schaudt/KJZZ: A card given to those who got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at State Farm Stadium. The Pfizer vaccine requires a second dose several weeks after the first.

Photo Courtesy of Sky Schaudt/KJZZ

Column By Mike Bibb

You knew it was just a matter of time before the Biden Administration would begin considering more stringent vaccination mandates to fight the latest COVID-19 variant.

Of course, these rules won’t apply to the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants flooding across our southern border.  Apparently, Joe isn’t concerned about this glaring discrepancy or various infectious diseases many of these people are bringing with them. 

Why?  Because he’s fully aware his “open borders” policy can’t continue to allow unfettered entry if restrictive health requirements are enforced.  These decrees are for U.S. citizens, not Central and South Americans, Africans, Middle Easterners, or anyone else fleeing their original homeland.

This helps to explain why President Joe is adamant folks from Arizona, Kansas, Ohio, Wyoming and the remaining 46 states are fully vaccinated – and wear a mask.  He’s the president over us.  He’s not the president of any other country or people.  He doesn’t have the authority to dictate to them.

When migrants cross our borders unlawfully, he’s still not their president.  They are not United States citizens.  They are individuals from other countries who have intentionally entered without consent.  They were not born here and have no right to be here without first following proper procedures.

No different than if I entered Mexico as a tourist.  The president of Mexico isn’t my president just because I happened to be visiting.  However, I am expected to adhere to Mexican law.

Consequently, Biden isn’t going to waste his time enforcing COVID regulations upon people who could care less about another U.S. law or health care stipulation.  Especially when the “welcome mat” is in plain view. 

So, he directs his influence over lawful inhabitants – you, me, documented immigrants, and others who have been granted authorization to be here.

Presently, there’s a discussion concerning the implementation of restricting travel between states because of COVID concerns.  The government’s reasoning seems to be if people cannot provide proof of vaccination, then they shouldn’t be allowed to venture beyond their state’s borders for fear of spreading the virus.

What next, unless vaccinated Graham County residents will be denied driving to Morenci or Willcox?

In a U.S. News and World Report article, Aug. 12, 2021, Biden is requiring federal employees and military personnel to be vaccinated or tested weekly.  There doesn’t seem to be any excuse to be excluded.  It’s a one/two shots fits all approach.

Large corporations and other employers are also being urged to have their employees vaxxed as a condition of employment.  As are colleges and universities, and high schools.

At the same time, no one has mentioned the necessity of having an annual flu shot in order to travel, ride a city bus, watch a baseball game, or attend a family funeral.

Yet, according to a March 12, 2021 article in “Prevention,” a Hearst publication,  “Compared to the 2019-20 flu season, for example, the CDC estimated that more than 38 million became sick with influenza, leading to 400,000 hospitalizations and 22,000 deaths.  That’s slightly lower than the 2018-2019 season (34,200 deaths) and slightly less than the 2017-2018 season (61,000 deaths).”

It’s lunacy on steroids acting under the guise of halting a virus that has over a 95% recovery rate and a very small fatality percentage when excluding comorbidity conditions.

COVID, by itself, isn’t a particularly threatening disease, it’s all the other health disorders a person may have that are doing the real damage.  Our immune system, if it hasn’t been compromised by various human activities, including overuse of medicines, drugs, and other chemicals, can usually ward off or sufficiently retard most sicknesses.

Periodic illnesses are nature’s way of ridding our bodies of nasty stuff.  When we feel puny for a few days and gradually recover, then we know our immune system is doing its job.

The immune system is as important to our health as the heart, lungs, or other vital bodily organs.  For the government to compel an injection of a drug that has not been fully approved by that government’s own health agency, appears to be exceeding its lawful and moral authority.  Particularly, since the long-term effects of the vaccines haven’t been determined.  Including its impact upon our immune system.

We’ve been a tolerant society.  Remember when we were originally told it would only “take 15 days to flatten the curve.”  Then it became three months.  Then six months.  Then a year.  Now, we’re approaching the two-year anniversary of the virus and the government is ordering us to get a couple of shots in the arm, wear a mask and return to “social distancing.”

How could anyone possibly know it would only take “15 days” to restrain the virus?  They couldn’t.  We were lied to or intentionally deceived, and this nonsense – in one form or another – has remained the government’s continual explanation to extend the COVID mandates.   

The CDC’s perpetually mixed messaging of dealing with the virus isn’t instilling much confidence in the public sector.  The highly touted experts appear confused as anyone else, often disagreeing among themselves.

I’m not the most intelligent guy around, but when I’m constantly reminded by politicians and government health officials that we must comply with their latest theory on containing COVID, and many of those recommendations do not appear to be predicated upon universally accepted standards, then I begin to think maybe the government has other motives in mind.

Especially when I’m required to acquiesce to their directives and over a million immigrants crossing our borders are not.

Something doesn’t add up.  Or, maybe it all depends upon who’s doing the math! 

The opinion in this editorial is that of the author.