It’s Thanksgiving Day, and it's officially ok to begin the holiday season. It’s finally okay to watch Christmas movies, hear Christmas music, and see Christmas decorations in stores.
But, according to the CDC, if you’re planning a big get-together with family, you better “get vaccinated.”
It’s true. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is literally encouraging Americans to “keep” their holiday plans by getting vaccinated for their protection.
“Keep your holiday plans. Get vaccinated. Stay protected,” reads an image shared on social media by the CDC.
Planning for COVID-19 protection makes for a safer, healthier holiday season. Get yourself and your loved ones vaccinated and stay up to date on your immunizations.
— CDC (@CDCgov) November 19, 2023
Find updated vaccines at https://t.co/2akIUZ14Rd. pic.twitter.com/T1kGl1v6cH
Naturally, the graphic features a diverse group of people, including what might be intended to be a gay couple. There are no children. It looks more like a Friendsgiving dinner than your traditional multi-generational family gathering with grandparents, parents, and children. The nuclear family is clearly not fashionable anymore.
At least none of them were wearing masks.
Of course, once you get paced the politically correct Thanksgiving dinner, you see that the tweet reads "Planning for COVID-19 protection makes for a safer, healthier holiday season. Get yourself and your loved ones vaccinated and stay up to date on your immunizations."
The message couldn’t be clearer: If you want to get together with friends and loved ones, get your COVID vaccine booster. At this point, you probably should have earned a free sub on your vaccine booster loyalty card.
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As I’ve noted before, I got the Johnson and Johnson's vaccine in April 2021, and that’s it. And I’m not going to apologize to the CDC because I have no intention of getting another COVID vaccine or booster. I got the J&J because it wasn’t an mRNA vaccine, and it was one and done -- and I am done. Not only do I have no intention of getting another booster, I certainly won’t ask or expect anyone else to do so either.
It really disgusts me the way the CDC feels that it must emotionally blackmail people by implying that the only way you can get together with friends and family for the holidays is to get your COVID vaccine/booster first. We’ve gone through this so many times now, and guess what? We’re all over it. Just because the rollout for the latest and greatest booster hasn’t exactly been a success doesn’t mean the CDC should make people feel horrible about gathering with family for the holidays.
Pass me some apple pie, not myocarditis. Thank you.
This graphic tells us that while most of the country has gotten over COVID, our government has not, and they’ll continue to push this on us as they’ve been doing for years now. But times have changed. These days when I’m out, I see only a select few people even wearing masks anymore. They stick out like sore thumbs, and it sometimes takes significant energy to not point and laugh at them. I recently visited urgent care for an upper respiratory infection and none of the nurses or doctor who saw me wore a mask—even when I told them I hadn’t bothered getting tested for COVID.
It’s over, CDC. It’s time to move on.
