This is Completely Insane

Republicans have gotten so insane about vaccines that members of some right wing families feel compelled to disguise themselves to get vaccines.

Seriously, this sh%$ makes Caligula appointing his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate^* look sane. 

The idea that members of the Neanderthal Right have to get faccinated in secret is f%$#ed up and sh%$:

Even as the more contagious Delta variant drives a surge in infections, the Covid-19 vaccination effort has become so polarized in Missouri that some people are trying to get shots in secret to avoid conflicts with friends and relatives, a doctor there said.

In a video circulated by her employer, Dr. Priscilla A. Frase, a hospitalist and the chief medical information officer at Ozarks Healthcare in West Plains, Mo., said this month that several people had pleaded for anonymity when they came in to be vaccinated, and that some appeared to have made an effort to disguise themselves.

“I work closely with our pharmacists who are leading our vaccine efforts through our organization,” she said, “and one of them told me the other day that they had several people come in to get vaccinated who have tried to sort of disguise their appearance and even went so far as to say, ‘Please, please please, don’t let anyone know that I got this vaccine.’”

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“Nobody should have to feel that kind of pressure to get something that they want, you know,” she added. “We should all be able to be free to do what we want to do, and that includes people who don’t want to get the vaccine as well as people who do want to get the vaccine. But we’ve got to stop ridiculing people that do or don’t want to get the vaccine.”

The video was circulating online as public health officials in Missouri were confronting a resurgent outbreak, driven by the Delta variant and concentrated in the state’s south and southwest.

This is insane.  Completely and totally nuts.

I have come to 2 conclusions on what this means:

1. America is doomed, because the stupid has crossed something akin to the event horizon on a black hole.
2. We cannot work with these people, we can only try to stop them.
   

^*There needs to be a clarification here: Caligula never actually appointed his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate. He joked about doing so as a way of demonstrating the fecklessness of the body. He suggested that his horse could do a better job than the Roman Senate could, much in the same way that I suggest that my cat could do a better job than Texas Governor Greg Abbott.