It is the official policy here at Enon Holler World Headquarters that we recommend you and everyone you know gets one of the three available vaccinations for COVID-19. We got the Pfizer double-jab, but the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots are just as viable. Talk to your doctor or primary caregiver, of course, especially if you have any concerns, as there are instances of allergic reactions to consider. However, most of us should be fine unless we have a similar history with other vaccinations.
Do not believe the moonshine you might be reading from your least favorite aunt on your favorite social media service about lack of FDA approval or chances that it might turn you magnetic. The double domes know what they’re doing, the vaccines didn’t come out of a vacuum, and you are perfectly willing to be lead by the nose depending on whose finger is on the ring. Be honest.
Indeed, be prepared to get a booster and, in fact, be ready to get a COVID-19 vaccination every year much as we do with flu shots now. We’re experiencing a spike in hospitalizations due to the Delta variant. In fact, Mississippi’s numbers hit a high we haven’t seen since January. While one can’t be for sure – especially since one isn’t a virologist and, thus, everything must be taken from a grain of salt when it comes from some random mook on the internet – all of this could have been avoided had more people gotten properly vaccinated and practiced advised prevention practices like social distancing and proper mask use.
But, here we are. While some governors remain welded to the idea of being a total dick while their state suffers, some are regretting rash decisions made to placate solely a group of yay-hoos that will turn on them the minute they go against their new messiah. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a mandate banning requiring masks in the state earlier in the summer. Now, however, as the Natural State (…really?) sees an increase of some 69% in reported cases and a 52% increase in hospitalizations, Hutchinson says he regrets the decision. He made it, he claims, because numbers in the state were so low.
However, Arkansas has only a 37% vaccination rate, among the lowest in the country, so I’m not sure what anyone expected to happen. Indeed, lawsuits from parents of school kids filed in state courts are seeking to halt the execution of the mandate because they actually care more about their kids than their politics or skewered perception of the Narrative. Here in Mississippi, while he still thinks he’s smarter than the CDC, the sentient pile of SPAM we call a governor, Tate Reeves, in no doubt what will become political suicide, hasn’t issued such a mandate and left it up to the various school systems.
As we touched on Monday, several schools in the Magnolia State have reversed decisions and will require masks once the doors open this week or the next. Nearby Pontotoc County Schools, for example, are the most recent to join the trend of hip and cool schools. So has Mississippi State University. On the flipside, Sherriff Lee Vance of Hinds County – the largest in the state and home of the capital Jackson – died three weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 during an outbreak of the virus in the jail he oversaw. His official cause of death, however, hasn’t been released.
Again, we recommend you get the shot. However, when the rubber meets the road, we care about as much as we’d care if you decided to go play in traffic. That is, for you, not at all, but we’re more concerned with all the people you’ll hurt with your selfishness.
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