12 DECEMBER 23, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Anti-vax desperados
When they look in the mirror,
they see themselves
as freedom fi ghters in the
style of Nathan Hale, Davy Crockett
and Theodore Roosevelt, rising up
against injustice and government
overreach to defend their right to
exist.
But to the rest of us, the anti-vaxxers
are nothing close to a freedom
fi ghter — because a genuine patriot
is someone who cares more about the
safety and well-being of others than
about themselves.
It’s bad enough that the vaccine
refusers deny the science of the
COVID-19 vaccine amid the killer
pandemic before us.
It’s bad enough that they choose to
substitute the reality of the vaccine’s
eff ectiveness at stopping severe illness
for some nonexistent Orwellian
dystopia, fed to them by professional
liars, where Big Brother is watching
with a poisonous syringe in their
hand.
It’s bad enough that they protest
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A group of people against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate rallied in and
outside the Cheesecake Factory at the Queens Center Mall on Dec. 15.
Screenshot via newyorkfreedomrally2/Instagram
mandates, supported by the majority
of people, in favor of imposing their
own “tyranny of the minority” where
no vaccines are mandated, and we’re
forced to play Russian roulette with
our health every time we go into a
school, a doctor’s offi ce, a restaurant,
a movie theater, anywhere.
Seemingly realizing their ignorance
isn’t winning the public over,
the anti-vaxxers have chosen another
tactic: Invading public spaces such as
malls to make their point, endangering
the vast majority in the process.
That happened last week at the
Cheesecake Factory restaurant in
the Queens Center mall, where the
anti-vaxxers breached the eatery,
where only vaccinated patrons are
permitted to dine, as per city regulations.
Six protesters were arrested;
no one knows how many patrons may
wind up being infected by their stunt.
It’s one thing to protest in the
streets, but it’s another to breach a
private business and intimidate its
customers over a policy for which
they have no control. Whoever decided
this stupid, feckless stunt was
a smart idea should be ashamed, but
we question whether they have such
capacity within themselves.
COVID-19 cases are rising again
in New York City. People are getting
infected, including those who got the
vaccine previously.
But hospitalization and death rates
are down, largely because people
chose to get vaccinated — and as a
result, their cases are not as severe.
We wish the anti-vax desperados
would “come to their senses,” get off
their high horses and realize what
horrific mistakes they’ve made —
“before it’s too late.”
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