From: Terry Marbach
Columbus
We have been in a war with COVID-19 and its variants for about two years. That war has caused more people in the United States to die from COVID than the total population of each of many major cities — Seattle, Nashville, Denver, Las Vegas, etc. This war has caused more deaths than United States military deaths in any war, and twice the number that died in World War II .
One would think that when you are in such a war you would use every possible weapon to defeat the enemy and win that war. That is what we did during World War II. Every citizen was asked to make significant sacrifices in order to increase the odds of winning.
But today, far too many of our state and federal elected officials do not want to use every possible weapon. In fact, they want us to not fight at all, or to fight with our hands tied behind our back! And far too many of our citizens are not willing to make any sacrifice to hasten the end of the war.
Of course those who refuse to “sacrifice” have no hesitancy to ask the medics on the battlefield to save them when they are “wounded” by the enemy.
There is clear, indisputable evidence that getting everyone vaccinated and wearing masks will hasten the end of the war.
Do our representatives at the state House and in Congress want to end the war? So far the evidence is that they do not want to, and that they don’t care if hundreds of thousands of people have died unnecessarily, and will continue to die because of their policies.
Perhaps the solution is for all hospitals, medical insurance companies and medical professionals to say that they will not treat, or pay for, any person who comes from the battlefield seeking COVID treatment if that person has not been vaccinated. After all, if you don’t believe in the science of vaccinations and mask wearing, why do you believe they will have the science to save you?
Or perhaps every legislator should be required to spend a day in an ICU and a day in an elementary classroom so they could see firsthand the incredible burden the legislator has placed on the people working there.
To paraphrase Walt Kelly, “We have met the enemy, and it is our Republican legislators.”
