A Frustrated Eric Swalwell Erupts On Those Who Won't Get Vaccinated

[ffr]

I’m losing my Covid patience🧵 I’ve tried to reason with the unvaxxed. I’ve directed some to medical pros. I don’t judge but hear them out and steer them to facts. The unvaxxed love to say it’s about choice. But you know who doesn’t have a choice? My 3 kids under 5.

Blah blah blah you have a right to not get vaxxed. Fine. Then business and government have a right to tell you that you’re not welcome to patronize or you can’t get on a plane. Because what right do you think you have to expose my kids to your Covid? As parents, let’s own the outrage. The looney carnival barkers at the school board meetings DO NOT reflect where most parents are. Your unvaxxed status is creating new variants. So get your damn shot. Or, stay inside your house. But don’t mess with my kids.

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Link to tweet

Rep. Swalwell was correct. The loud minority always gets all of the media’s attention. He is also right about the unvaccinated created an environment for the virus to mutate and prosper. The unvaccinated are hosts that allow new variants of COVID to spread with ease.
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Eventually, America will either impose a vaccine mandate or allow the unvaccinated to die for their warped death cult definition of freedom, but most Americans are tired of trying to save those who don’t want to be saved. - PoliticusUSA

Fuck the unvaccinated! Assholes!

[RKP5637]

1. Agree!!!!!!! "Fuck the unvaccinated! Assholes!"

[calimary]

3. THIS, Dammit!!!

[in2herbs]

2. Biden should declare that, for example, in 90 days anti-vaxers who get sick and seek hospital

care will be relegated to tents that will be set up for COVID patients in the parking lots of hospitals and if they don't like it they will be turned away. These anti-vaxers need to feel the wrath that they are inflicting on others.

[calimary]

5. And THIS, TOO, Dammit!!!!!!!!!!

It should be the FIRST question that they’re asked - anywhere, for any reason.

“Are you vaccinated?”

And if not, say goodbye to your “freedoms.” Your “freedom-freedom” does NOT ‘ean you’re “free” to spread a potentially lethal virus around.

I don’t give a damn what your lame-ass excuse or Pox Noise-induced rationale is. Wear the damn mask, DAMMIT!

[bluestarone]

10. I DO like this idea, BUT

If possible and legal i would like to see the HOSPITALS decide to set up OUTSIDE tents or WHATEVER to care for the UNVAXXED! This is NOT for Joe to do, BUT, it is i think ok for the hospitals to do just so NORMAL care can be given to people that need it! To ADD here i feel THIS would show that the un-vaxxed better decide SOON to get the shot or else.

[AngryOldDem]

20. Don't allow them inside.

Have triage tents set up outside.

That is the whole purpose of triage, and sorry, but an unvaxxed person with COVID symptoms can wait. They can think of it as a time for deep, personal reflection.

A major hospital here did have quonset huts set up outside at the height of the pandemic. Never really heard how many people it treated there. The critical care units were full for months, though.

[bluestarone]

22. Agree x's a million

Un-vaxxed need to KNOW this is how it is if they refuse to get the fucking set of shots. Why can't hospitals DO THIS? That would be AWESOME!!!

[electric_blue68]

23. 🤔 That might have been us in NYC in Central Park...

Pretty sure. Rather... Startling!

[LiberalFighter]

17. Tents should not be set up outside hospitals.

To be more efficient... Next to cemeteries.

[soldierant]

29. Welcome ...

[Delmette2.0]

4. Just my opinion.

Every one should have to show proof of vaccines (3) before you can go into a hospital. If you have COVID and refused vaccines for what ever reason, you are not allowed in for visiting, treatments, follow-ups or the emergency room.

Just go home and save resources for those who are trying to protect themselves, families, neighbors and co-workers.
You are not trying to end this pandemic and you do not get our help.

[MontanaMama]

35. Exactly.

People are dying from treatable and curable ailments in hospital hallways because beds are full of the willfully unvaccinated. Every damned one of them should be sent home to deal with the mess they created for themselves so that vaccinated people can receive the care they deserve. Not to mention the stress and strain this is causing our medical professionals.

[Delmette2.0]

37. +1 million

[Lonestarblue]

6. Republicans in states are now paying people not to be vaccinated.

If they lose jobs because of the refusal to get the vaccine, Republicans are paying them unemployment even though they were fired for reason.

The Washington Post has an article today about red states paying unvaccinated people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/29/florida-iowa-kansas-tennessee-unemployment-benefits-fired-covid-vaccine-requirements/

Republicans are using the pandemic as an election strategy just as they did for the 2010 when they blamed Obama for the economic mess of the Great Recession, which they caused in the first place. Republicans made huge gains in that election, and they’re planning for the same in 2022.

“But building solidarity with fellow culture warriors isn’t the only benefit for Republicans.
These policies also undermine federal efforts to get the pandemic under control, which the right then blames Biden for not controlling. They also might help sabotage the economic recovery, which the right will also blame Biden for not sufficiently juicing.”

It’s their same old blame game, and many voters just roll over and vote for Republicans even when they offer nothing better and actually deliver much worse as their history shows.

[LiberalFighter]

18. Businesses need to fight it.

They are paying into the unemployment compensation for their employees.

[ShazzieB]

43. They really should.

I hope businesses start raising a ruckus about this! And maybe they will. After all, it affects their bottom line.

What was that about the GOP being the party that supports business? Oh, that's right. They're not.

[lees1975]

7. This is a man the Democrats need to have up front, visible, and in the media as much as possible

[wnylib]

8. People who believe and repeat

the disinformation about vaccines are the same people who fall for other kinds of rumors and gossip, what we now call "urban legends" and in the past called "old wives' tales."

For example, when I was a kid, there was a family of siblings at school who never brushed their teeth. They used gum and breath fresheners to avoid mouth odor, but said they didn't even own toothbrushes. They believed that toothbrushing wears down the enamel of teeth and causes cavities.

Naturally we laughed at the idea because they had dental health backward. But it's what their mother had told them so they could not be persuaded by facts. Her "reasoning" sounded logical to her and to them except that she didn't have basic facts to base it on, e.g. that tooth enamel is too strong to be eroded by the brushes. In her mind, if candy could wear through enamel, so could toothbrushes.

That's the kind of "thinking" that makes people believe ridiculous claims about vaccines and about "natural cures and preventions" against covid. If there is simple logic to what they hear, and it comes from someone they trust, then they believe it. Since they have no understanding of vaccines or of basic biology, trying to inform them sounds too complicated and therefore bogus to them.

[hauckeye]

9. My unvaxxed sister says "vaccinated people spread it too"

How to respond to that?

[Demobrat]

11. They don't go to hospitals or end up on ventilators,

or die. Hospitals and graveyards are full of the unvaccinated.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Vaccinated people are much less likely

To contract Covid. If you are less likely to get it, you are less likely to spread it.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vaccinated-people-can-transmit-the-coronavirus-but-its-still-more-likely-if-youre-unvaccinated

[IronLionZion]

15. Lower chance of getting infected and much lower viral load

both significantly reduce amount of spread from vaccinated people. But if we are also masked and social distanced, that risk goes down close to 0.

[hot2na]

26. Sober drivers also get into car accidents

But if you don't drink and drive your chances of avoiding a car accident or even death is significantly reduced.

It's the same logic with the vaccine. The vaccine significantly reduces the chances of infection, hospitalization or death.

[LaMouffette]

30. All the vaxxed people I know, me included, are still wearing our masks. Why? Because we CARE

about other people and don't want to risk giving someone else Covid if we happen to catch Covid in spite of being vaxxed and aren't symptomatic.

So for that reason, I would say that vaccinated people are MUCH less likely to spread it because we're the ones you see with masks on these days.

[IronLionZion]

12. I hope he's right about parents

because media keeps showing the crazy people at school board meetings who I hope are a small minority.

[TomSlick]

14. Don't spread it to my grandchildren.

I'm ready for a more serious crackdown. A good start would be a vaccine mandate for domestic flights.

[ShazzieB]

44. I'd like to see a vaccine mandate for all flights to anywhere.

You're not vaccinated? You are not allowed on a plane, period.

[TomSlick]

48. Agreed.

The requirement should also include interstate trains and buses.

[Demobrat]

50. I won't fly unless and until that's in place.

Flying is miserable enough without getting stuck sitting next to some disease vector.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. past time for this. Thank you.

[lindysalsagal]

19. The looney carnival barkers at the school board meetings

Got THAT right.

[electric_blue68]

21. Frikkin' YES! GO Eric!

[Seinan Sensei]

24. Looney Carnival Barkers

Looney Carnival Barkers are gonna be insulted with this comparison

[Leith]

25. Vaxholes are stupid and stubborn

It is long past time that we stop putting up with those loudmouth germ buckets.

[Tree Lady]

27. I was just telling my husband the vaccinated

Are getting angry very angry at the unvaxed for keeping this going.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Eric Swalwell is right to be outraged at hypocrites who refuse to get vaccinated

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[róisín_dubh]

31. I'm with him.

I don't have kids. But I am pretty goddamned tired of this constant stress. I split my life between two continents. My partner is over there and my job is here (for now).

[spanone]

32. Fucking A Eric Swalwell!

[bucolic_frolic]

33. Swalwell and Tim Ryan are the ballast for next years' journey

Buckle up.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. +1 Ryan.... Speaks the voice of long gone liberal heroes!

[AllaN01Bear]

34. """ i have heard from a friend that said in some country whose

name i dont remember , " if u have covid and wernt vaxxed, u wont be admitied to hospital". period .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. +1

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. K&R

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Stop being nice!. I did, over the Thanksgiving

weekend, with my husband's Texan wingnut family.

It's a horrible thing, something you never really wanted to do, go against and inflame your in-laws. But I manage to do it.

[Blue Owl]

41. It's time for Herman to call them home....

[ShazzieB]

45. I'm sick of those blankity-blanks, too!

After almost two years, I'm freaking sick to death of this crap.

The first year was the scariest, but at least it felt like we were all in this together. NOW, it feels like some of us are trying like hell to do all the right things (masks, vaccination, etc.), while another bunch of people are farting around spreading this garbage everywhere without a care in the world, until they get sick themselves, and then they're like, "Oh, woe is me, this covid crud is terrible, who knew? Please give me the vaxx now, kthnx. What do you mean it's too late? Oh noooooo."

And we're supposed to feel sorry for them? Well, sorry, not sorry. Except for all the people they probably gave it to. UGH.

FUCK THEM ALL.

[orleans]

46. he's been more patient with those assholes than i've been

i've got a granddaughter under five that i worry about. thank god my daughter is extremely protective and careful

[Sherman A1]

47. I have less than zero patience with them

And want nothing to do with anyone who is so friggin stupid.

[BeckyDem]

49. He is correct. If not for the absurd ignorance and arrogance, we would be living a different

reality right now.