Roman generals whose legions had distinguished themselves in battle were awarded a triumph.  A parade, at which they were cheered through the streets of Rome and showered with honors.  But just to make sure they didn’t get any dangerous ideas, a slave would whisper in their ears, reminding them that, “all glory is fleeting.”  Ain’t that the truth!  Not much has changed in two thousand years.  Remember when, just a few months ago, healthcare professionals were being hailed as heroes?  I sure do.  Politicians slobbered all over themselves, each trying to outdo one another heaping praise on them.  People had lawn signs hailing the heroes.  The hospitals where they worked even got into the act.

The American Hospital Association said, “The front-line caregivers in the COVID-19 crisis, including nurses, physicians, facilities management personnel, technicians and other healthcare providers, are working around the clock to care for patients and our communities.  These essential workers need, and deserve, additional resources to both continue their work and support themselves and their families after this crisis.”  How touching.  They even suggested that our healthcare workers were superheroes.

Yesterday your doctors and nurses were just like Superman, but the Romans were right.  All glory is fleeting, because the tyrants who run our governments have discovered a new kryptonite – vaccine mandates.  That’s right.  Vaccine mandates are here and these essential workers, who once needed and deserved additional resources to continue their work and support themselves and their families, have been declared expendable.  It’s either, take the vaccine, or “You’re fired!”   Now, in truth, most of the sites that honored Healthcare Heroes were fundraising off the efforts of the selfless men and women (sorry, those are the only genders that exist) who put their lives in jeopardy to treat Wuhan patients, while waiting for useless public officials, including the same bastards who are now firing them, to figure out what they were trying to do.  While the Chinese infected and then lied to the world, they went to work.  While “experts” like Dr. Fauci assured us that the Wuhan wasn’t a threat, they went to work.  While idiot Governors killed tens of thousands by sending infected people back to nursing homes, they went to work.  While supplies were short, hours were long, pay was scant, and the bodies piled up outside, they went to work.  Senate Democrats even proposed $25,000 bonuses to be paid to healthcare workers.  It never happened, and I think that’s the only spending plan the bastards left out of their $3.5, or is it $5.5 trillion boondoggle.  But now they can’t go to work, unless they take the vaccine.  On a simplistic level, which is the only level that the mainstream media permits reporting to occupy, vaccinating healthcare workers doesn’t seem so extreme.  But simple is the one thing this issue is not.  Now, I said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’m not anti-vaccine, and unless you have a good reason not to get it, I think it’s a good idea to get it.  But again, it’s not that simple, because little things like reality, the truth, actual science, medical ethics, and the law have to be considered.  See, there’s this thing called natural immunity.  You may recall, early on in the Wuhan fiasco, doctors, including the ever-present and ever-irritating, Dr. Fauci used to talk about herd immunity.  That’s when the virus has gone sufficiently through the population, and so many people have become immune to it, that it stops spreading.  Now, many doctors say it will never happen, or doesn’t really exist.  Dr. Makary of Johns Hopkins says more than 100 million Americans have had and gotten over the Wuhan, and thus have natural immunity.  The Israelis just did a study of 2.5 million people.  That’s the study that recommended booster vaccines.  The U.S. experts accepted that, and Big pharma loved it.  The same study found that natural immunity is 27 times more effective than vaccine immunity.  That part, our experts ignored.  For the vaccine mandaters, people with natural immunity, and natural immunity itself, don’t exist.  Why not?  The excuse they always give is “the Delta variant.”  It all sounds like an Abbott and Costello routine –  So, if I take the vaccine, I’m protected from the Delta variant?  Oh, no.  I can still get it?  Sure.  I can still spread it, even with the vaccine?  Oh, yes.  So, why do I need to take the vaccine?  Because.  Because what?   Because we said so.  How about I just get the first shot?  No,  that’s not enough.  Then suppose I get the second shot too?  Sure, sure, but you can’t stop there.  Why not?  Well we’re also mandating a third.  A third what?  A booster.  What does it boost?  Protection.  What protection?  You need the third, to protect you from what you don’t get from the second and the first.  So if I take the first, the second, and the third then I don’t need a mask, right?  Oh no, you still need a mask.  Why?  To protect the others.  But I thought the vaccine protected them.  Who told you that?  Wear a mask anyway.  In fact, after the first, the second and the third shots, you should wear a second mask.  But I thought masks don’t work?  You’re not allowed to say that.  Why?  I don’t know, he’s on third, and I don’t give an damn!  The only problem is it’s not funny.  New York may fire 90,000 healthcare workers.  Who will replace them?  What do you think all those Haitians are for?  Actually, they’re perfect for the job, because Joe Biden says they don’t need to be tested, and we can’t force them to take a vaccine.  We have to give them welfare, and Medicaid, and Medicare, and free college tuition, but we can’t make illegal aliens take a vaccine.  That honor is reserved for American citizens.  You know, the stupid, hard-working, tax-paying jackasses who’ve been pulling that heavy wagon up that steep hill all these years, with all those worthy migrants, bums and idlers riding in the back.  Our priorities are seriously askew, and our judgment is warped.  A government that will punish its own citizens for not taking a vaccine, while at the same time admitting, circulating, and supporting hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated and infected aliens, is capable of anything.  When Haitian healthcare swaps vaccines for voodoo, you can count on one thing.  The government will still be blaming all ills on unvaccinated Americans.