re: Some NOLA restaurants going to vaccine mandate for customers.

You can think whatever you want, ole Lester boy, but if you went far back enough to when vaccines were rolling out initially, you will see that I was entirely planning on needing to get it for travel or whatever else and was never against the idea. Just was never rushing out. For someone who is young and healthy, I think that is a totally acceptable stance. Most of us young, healthy people encouraged our family members to get the vaccine. If we were so antivax, we wouldn't have done that, now would we?

It has only been in the past few weeks that things have shifted in a nearly evil way towards people who have chosen that route.

As I said, the messaging has been horrible. Now, you're a "stupid fricking redneck a-hole idiot" or some variation of such if you simply didn't run out and get a vaccine as a perfectly healthy young person. Yeah, that's really gonna convince the unvaccinated. The dude who cooks for Blue Giant or Turkey and the Wolf or one of those places posted just that type of thing on IG yesterday. They're just fortunate there's enough mentally ill people that eat that shite up, so they have the freedom to make a-hole posts like that.

Maybe if they hadn't made the vaccine political back when it was being worked on under Trump's presidency (which, I was still never planning to rush out and get because lazy), it wouldn't be such a political disaster now. But they did this to themselves.

At the end of the day, you aren't going to convince people who are skeptical about the vaccine to run out and get it by calling them names. Nor are you going to convince them by comparing it to ACTUAL horribly deadly diseases. Nor are you going to convince them by bringing back mask recommendations for the vaccinated. All things that are happening.