Thread by @Gormogons

GP The risk to unvaccinated people is 3x greater to get hospitalized, 5x for ICU admission, and 7x for intubation based on my county which has a major-ish city in it.

Take that as you will.*

*The risk to the unvaccinated is still fairly low.

https://twitter.com/Gormogons/status/1465749179364483077

I'm not going to lecture anyone who's chosen not to get vaccinated. That's not my point.

My point is that government is punishing the vaccinated in a state with an extremely high vaccination rate by forcing mandates on them.

GP This is an anti-science, anti-statistics, and anti-logic approach.

Plus, government is *increasing* suspicion and disrespect of itself among those who have chosen its recommended vaccinations and generally complied.

GP One of the few, and to me the most likely, rationales for such counterintuitive government behavior is that the real purpose isn't to fight the pandemic but rather to increase government control over citizens.

GP I've long thought this about the pandemic response, and about pretty much every Democrat policy prescription of late on any topic.

But government treating the entire populace as unvaccinated when facts state otherwise is stupid.

GP Citizens aren't government's serfs. We're your frikkin' employers.

We are adults and are entitled to make our own choices, good, bad, or indifferent.

And if this form of government won't respect the inherent rights of citizens, well, it won't like the outcome for itself.