There are two pieces in the Washington County Daily News today by lefties who claim that Righties are all anti-vax and are unpatriotic for being so. Both assertions are false. Here’s one:

Still, mandate or not, it makes no sense that workers won’t step up for a shot and help move toward herd immunity for their community and the good of their country. Right-wing dogma insists on individual rights, but what about a civic obligation to get a shot and help achieve herd immunity so we can all go about our personal lives without restrictions?

 

In effect, the anti-vaxxers are freeloaders. They are riding on the backs of the majority of the people who get their vaccinations and thereby make everybody around them more safe.

 

It’s just too bad that the politics of the day put individual liberty and indulgences ahead of obligations to our fellow Americans. It’s a fake kind of patriotism that says, “I’ll do what’s good for me, and to hell with my fellow man.”

 

They are like draft dodgers in days of national military crisis. We are in another form of national crisis. It does not involve weapons and killing combatants, but it is a war against an insidious infection that will take more lives than all the battles this country has ever faced.

First, while there vaccinations have slowed, it is not all people who oppose vaccinations. There are some, sure, but the largest group seems to be people who are just not that upset about the whole thing and haven’t made the time to do it. In any case, looking at the county map of vaccination rates in Wisconsin, there is no evidence that more conservative counties are lagging behind liberal counties. Washington, Ozaukee, and Waukesha counties – the famed conservative “WOW” counties – all have a comparable or higher vaccination rate than liberal Milwaukee, Rock, or Eau Claire counties. The difference in vaccination rates seem to be driven more by demographic factors than ideological ones. In our personal lives, we know this to be true. So the premise that “conservatives are anti-vaxx” is a hoax being perpetrated by Leftist propagandists.

Why are they making this accusation? Because of the second accusation – that people who do not want a vaccine are unpatriotic and uncaring about their fellow man. That is also a lie – a wretched and destructive lie. It is based on a Marxist or Fascist (two branches of the same tree) notion that the collective is more important than the individual. Under that doctrine, all individual choices become subject to the will of the collective. It is authoritarian and hateful. It is the doctrine of a ruling class – or those who want to rule. It is not a doctrine based on freedom or live of your fellow man.

By lying that conservatives are anti-vax and then lying that anti-vaxers are unpatriotic, the Leftist propagandists are using a very old tactic to sow distrust and unrest prior to the next election. It is about the acquisition and use of power. It is not about you, your health, or vaccines. Those are just a tool in the propagandists’ belts. If it wasn’t vaccines, it would be environmentalism, justice reform, gun rights, or any other issue where the Leftists claim that any opposition to their position is unpatriotic and, therefore, invalid.

Make your own choice. If you want to get vaccinated, go for it. If not, that’s fine. That is the choice of a free person.