Another Brick In the Wall

Today is the the day that President Biden is making the COVID vaccines available to all Americans aged sixteen and up.

But thanks to a sudden turn of events regarding the vaccines - and no, I'm not talking about the pause on Johnson and Johnson's single-dose shot - that doesn't matter. 

Vaccination appointments once difficult to secure are becoming all too easy to get because almost everyone who wants a shot has gotten one.  The holdouts - mainly comprised of racial minorities, anti-vaccination skeptics, and, of course, Trump supporters - are a sufficiently large share of the population to cause the vaccination rate in the U.S. to plummet in the near future and render the nation's vaccine stockpiles to go unused.

The media are calling this the vaccine wall.

Blacks and Hispanics have a right to be hesitant about the vaccines, though a little extra persuasion can help to bring down hesitancy among those groups.  But in trying to educate anti-vaxxers and Trump Republicans - many of whom are one and the same - the Biden administration is finding out that, all in all they're just another bunch of bricks in the wall.

They don't need no education . . .  

And talking to them is like taking to a brick wall.  

Anti-vaxxers were eschewing vaccines for just about anything long before COVID, so trying to make them change their minds would be like selling ice cubes to Eskimos.  And even though Donald Trump did publicly endorse COVID vaccinations (albeit after having been vaccinated himself in secret), his supporters continue to resist the vaccines for no apparent reason.  I actually saw a Republican voter in Maine on CNN, wearing a face covering (FC), telling the CNN reporter - who was also wearing an FC - that he's not getting a shot and not even the knowledge that Trump has been vaccinated can change his mind.

I wanted to jump into the TV set and teleport myself to Maine to say this this joker, "If you want to stop wearing that damn piece of cloth over your face, you should get a shot, bucko!"  

The conventional wisdom is that Republicans don't want to get vaccinated against COVID because they think COVID is a hoax anyway, or at most, "just the flu."  Of course, if this guy thought COVID was a hoax, then why was he wearing a face covering?

I give up.  You can't fight stupid.  Thanks to these clowns, herd immunity will not be achieved in the U.S., and the pandemic will go on well into President Biden's successor's term . . . and this is assuming Biden gets re-elected and serves two full terms.  It looked just a week ago like the virus was going to hit a wall of vaccinations, but now it looks the vaccines will hit a wall of virus.

And your wise men don't know how it feels to be . . . oops, wrong prog song! 😠