They aren't wrong in general. This country is exceptional. They are completely wrong about the specifics of what make us exceptional. And lately it appears to be exceptional for all of the wrong reasons. We had a pretty decent run.
If emergency triage starts with something like, "COVID and not vaxxed? Back of the line!", then I can get onboard with that. If a single person dies of a non-COVID disease because hospital resources are eaten up by anti-vaxxers (and I'm certain this has already happened) then blood is on the hands of those fuckers. To hell with them!
Hmmm... Do some life insurance policies have provisions requiring vaccinations? I realize it may still be too early for policies to have that for COVID, but are we likely to see life insurance companies refuse to cover the unvaccinated? Or if they still provide coverage doing so with a hefty premium? A FAFO rider, if you will?
Had some decent pizza in a small town outside of Yosemite in California few years back. The restaurant was loaded with references to God and Jesus. Whatever. The food was good. The place is empty so the proprietor talks us up a bit. When he finds out we spent most of our lives in Texas he really opened up. Stated his intention to move there when he gets a chance. The first stated reason for moving to Texas? "You Texans know how to execute prisoners." You know, like Jesus always commanded I guess. So fucking weird how the right can twist religion.
Stuff like this baffles me. They use a phrase like 97 percent survival rate and think that means it's all much ado about nothing. If they believe that number to be true and we all skip vaccines then we'd lose about 10 million people in this country? And that's OK? Really?
I'm sure in their mind the 97% survival rate just means THEY will almost certainly be OK in the end. And that's all that really matters.
1985 Texas versus Missouri. Meh game. Meh season. But it was great to see my first game in person. Grew up in Louisiana so I'd only caught a few games on TV prior to that. Now in California, so it's been years since I've been to a game other than the recent Cal game in Berkeley I'd just a soon forget.
https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/archive/stats/85/ut-mizz.htm
Scoring Summary (Final)
1985 University of Texas Football
Missouri vs Texas (Sep 21, 1985 at Austin, Texas)
Missouri (0-1) vs. Texas (1-0)
Date: Sep 21, 1985 Site: Austin, Texas Stadium: Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 76437
Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Score
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Missouri............ 7 0 7 3 - 17
Texas............... 7 7 7 0 - 21
Texas - Hunter 26 yd. run (Ward kick) 10:56
Missouri - Lammers 33 yd. pass from Seitz (Welihan kick) 0:42
Texas - Stafford 36 yd. run (Ward kick) 6:34
Texas - Byerly 8 yd. run (Ward kick) 11:17
Missouri - Seitz 16 yd. run (Whelihan kick) 9:21
Missouri - Whelihan 53 yd. FG 5:13
Kickoff time: 7:03 pm End of Game: 10:05 pm Total elapsed time: 3:02
Officials:
Temperature: 83 Wind: SE 8-16 Weather: Partly Cloudy