The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for August, 2021

Much of the time it's difficult to select the appropriate recipient of my Ass Clown awards, but every once in a while it's as easy as pie. Without the least doubt or hesitation, I present a group award for

The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for August, 2021

to

The Anti-Vaxxers

Covid-19 in all its variants is a deadly disease that has killed more than 630,000 Americans and nearly 4,500,000 persons worldwide. In a towering feat of medical science and modern manufacturing and logistics, researchers produced in a matter of months safe, effective, and reliable vaccines that might have taken years to develop previously, and distributed them across the country. 

And yet there are people so ignorant, so blindly stupid or politically headstrong that they refuse to take the free vaccine that could save their lives and the lives of others. Their reasons for opposing vaccination are many and varied: 

"The FDA hasn't approved the vaccine;" (several different vaccines were approved for use under emergency use authorizations, and the Pfizer vaccine has received formal approval)

"Yes, the FDA has approved the vaccine, but I don't trust the government ... they're just saying it's okay for political reasons;"

"Bill Gates has put microchips into the vaccine that will allow the government to track me and control my life;"

"I don't know what's in that vaccine;" (and yet many are willing to take other medicines, including the veterinary deworming drug Ivermectin)

"I alone can decide what goes into my body;"

"The government can't tell me what to do with my own body;" 

"Jesus is my vaccine;" 

Etc.

Vaccines have eliminated or mitigated dozens of deadly diseases through the years, including smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, tetanus, and whooping cough, among many others. You can read a full list here. Many of you are alive to read this because of vaccinations your parents made sure you had while you were growing up.

The stupidity is beyond astounding, as is the perceived need to coddle the anti-vaxxers by patiently reaching out to them to gently explain why they should do something that will save their lives and the lives of others. To these idiots, their personal freedom to be stupid is far more important than any responsibility to their fellow citizens.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the Anti-Vaxxers - individually and collectively - are named as the August 2021 Left-Cheek Ass Clown. Because of their reckless selfishness and the danger they pose to themselves and others, they rate a score of 3,000,000 ghm on the Gohmert Stupidity Scale ... they deserve a higher score, but that's where the scale maxes out.

Have a good day, and get the damn shot. More thoughts tomorrow, on Cartoon Saturday.

Bilbo