Since we canceled Morgan Wallen for ignorance, can we now do the same with Carrie Underwood...and Jason Aldean?
In case you missed the memo, Carrie Underwood "liked" the video of a school anti-masking idiot.
Now if you're paying attention, playing the home game, you know that yesterday Culver City, California, which is where they make so many of the films and TV shows the right hoover up, as well as the left, issued a requirement that all students are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19: lat.ms/2UAN1v8 Are the parents up in arms? No, they're CHEERING!
As are most Americans:
"The GOP is losing the argument on coronavirus mandates - The Republican Party has rather clearly marched itself into a minority position, from masks in schools to targeted vaccine medicines": wapo.st/2XHanjV
Bottom line? The "freedom" caucus may be very vocal, but they're in a distinct minority, check the stats in the above article. Turns out people are scared and they want to be safe.
And then you've got bozo Jason Aldean marveling that he sees no masks in his audience, meanwhile, Los Angeles is now requiring them:
"L.A. County to require face masks at large outdoor events": lat.ms/3subIps
What's the moral of the story?
Move to California, where you have a better chance of riding out the pandemic safely, in a state that is denigrated emotionally but factually is doing quite well, never mind few people actually leaving.
Or, the tide is turning, people everywhere want to be safe.
Or both.
Now you might think this is a non-issue, but I ask you punk, do you feel lucky enough to go on tour in Tennessee and Texas and Florida, with their inane anti-protection statutes? Your audience may sympathize with you, but they can't beat the law, then again some are now fighting it. Jason Isbell said no-go, he just canceled his appearance at a festival in Bristol, on the border of Tennessee and Virginia: bit.ly/3xWP7mt
But we're not supposed to draw lines, we're supposed to be all accommodating and kumbaya. But really, when it comes to life and death?
The screws have been tightening, vaccination is required for more activities and in more locations every day. And those who oppose them are becoming pariahs. Funny, I thought abortion would be the issue that rallied people against the right, but history repeats with a twist, in other words the protests against the war in the sixties are now against ignorant-anti-vaxxers and maskers in the twenty first century maybe because these issues affect EVERYBODY! And just like the kids had to wake up their elders to the truth in Vietnam, a great swath of the public is now doing its best to wake up the ignorant re vaccines and masks, doing its best to fight misinformation where it counts, not in cyberspace, but in real life.
This is the story of our age. You might be reading about the Taliban in Afghanistan, but this is what America is truly concerned with, millions who are so ignorant and afraid they refuse to get jabbed for the good of society. Yes, we need you to get a measles shot so we can have herd immunity, anti-vaxxing parents brought an essentially extinct disease back from the graveyard to "save" their kiddies while the rest of us pay the price, I'm supposed to get my MMR update, but I can't right now because of the Covid vaccine and other health issues. Now I'm at risk, this time mainly as a result of the non-efforts of upper middle class people who believe they know better than the government.
Yes, ignorance knows no bounds, it's prevalent on the right and the left, and we must fight it every daman day...talk about rust never sleeping.
Now the truth is the concert business has been tightening show restrictions. Now, on a major tour, the odds of getting in willy-nilly, without vaccination, are very low. But the reins must be pulled even tighter.
Turns out Carrie Underwood was shamed by the public. She needed no pundit, no politico to get the ball rolling. The public is paying attention, this is a major issue, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of it, you don't want to be afraid. Is it really that hard to stand up for safety? Are you really that afraid of a vocal minority? Because when it comes to death, there are no supporters. Look at all the schools that opened and then had to send students home to be quarantined, in one case because a parent sent their infected kid to school. Do you really want to support anti-masking laws in educational institutions? As for that parent, they might as well go into the witness protection program.
The times they are a-changin'. You can stay home and be scared, believe vaccines are a political issue, pull up bogus science online to support your position, but the truth is the tide is going against you, and once again, this is not emotion speaking, this is facts! Time to bite the bullet, get vaxxed and make up an excuse why you didn't do it sooner. Not only for your own health, but for everyone's. And for the evisceration of future variants that present vaccines might be powerless against!
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