Morning Consult’s recent Return to Normal poll returned some eyebrow raising results: the vaccinated are considerably less comfortable doing basic human things than the unvaccinated.
To be sure, the vaccinated are already a self-selected group of risk-averse people, but this is still a ridiculous result. Why did you get the vaccine if you didn’t think it made it safe for you to go out, to go to a restaurant, to go to the movies, for heaven’s sake?
The results:
This is ridiculous. The media has created a risk-averse syndrome in much of our population. The following email from a reader of Professor Don Boudreaux’s blog, Café Hayek, demonstrates the absolute insanity that the media has inflicted on healthy young adults.
Experience of one of my daughters with her long time friend (LTF) this weekend, which is very disturbing.
We own a second house in Aiken, South Carolina. This daughter is an equestrian. SC is now fully open and Aiken lifted all mask mandates just this past week (thank God). With college classes over, my daughter and her long time friend made a weekend trip there. Sounds like fun, right?
My daughter made dinner reservations, and another friend invited them to see live music outside. It is important to note that my daughter has one shot of the vaccine, and that her LTF not only had COVID, but is fully vaccinated, and the friend they are meeting had COVID – and they are all under 25, so already not at great risk.
They are about to enter the restaurant when LTF has a panic attack, starts crying, and declares that she cannot enter the restaurant because people are dining inside. LTF then declares that she also cannot go to the music event because there will be crowds there. LTF has become so terrified of other human beings that, despite being immunized, she cannot fathom living life normally.
LTF is convinced that all the non-mask wearing people are going to infect her, and despite the fact that she, her parents, and her grandparents are all vaccinated, she is going to carry the illness to them and kill them. This is mental illness. This is what we’ve done to our young people. It is heartbreaking.
Boudreaux went to call out the insanity of the Governor of his own state Virginia.
Despite nearly four months of steadily, and often dramatically, falling case counts in Virginia – despite steadily falling hospitalization numbers for Covid – despite falling Covid death rates – despite 50 percent of Virginians now having at least one vaccine shot and 38 percent being fully vaccinated, the government of this State which was home to Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison officially advises citizens to double mask and to worry about “new variants of Covid-19.”
This attitude is deranged.
Deranged indeed. This is a new mental illness. It’s called COVID Derangement Syndrome (CDS). It was created by the Democrats and their media allies in order to steal the election and to allow them to coerce the people into doing whatever the government tells them to do in order to be safe.