Chillicothe
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RE-PURPOSED FROM ANOTHER THREAD:
I do feel a sense of annoyance at their decisions and the impacts they are causing.
Look, this vaccine business is getting well worn now. Those who want 'em.......got 'em a long time ago. Those who don't.....won't. Or won't until someone close to them is severely sickened or dies.
The sides are the sides.
But what sticks in my craw over this trucker business is the bastardization of 'freedoms".
Their interpretation of freedom is to not be required to get a needle shot.
OK, fine. Don't get the friggin' shot. Go to your local Mayor's office and do a sit in.
But these trucker's misinterpretation of freedom requires that it restricts the freedom of so many many more. It is an exclusionary irresponsible brand of freedom. Freedom for me, but not thee.
Their freedom is worth more than yours.
We are the ones who have to lay off employees, see our shelves empty, stop our production lines, miss meetings, contracts, commitments, obligations, deadlines.
That's not their problem. They are 'free' from those responsibilities.
I try to imagine that I'm a trucker in my rig stuck 50 trucks back. I'm vaccinated. I have a time-deadlined perishable cargo. I have a hard commitment to pick up my next load after I've delivered this one. I have obligations that I must get to ....... for my aged and ailing parent, for my pregnant wife, for my kid's operation, for my hernia repair.
But.........but I'm stuck 50 trucks back because some crybaby snowflakes decided to f**k over me and all the others behind 'em......just so they can go all tantrummy over getting a friggin' shot.
Count me very very unsympathetic to that brand of freedom. A freedom for a few folks' that limits, restricts, prevents so many freedom for so many many other people.
Imagine the utility people in Ottawa, or Detroit, or Minneapolis, or your city, interpreting their "freedom" the same way. There goes your lights, your water, your gas.
The blocking truckers are criminals. And need pay a price.
Chillicothe:
I ain't ready to let this trucker-blockade issue go just yet.I do feel a sense of annoyance at their decisions and the impacts they are causing.
Look, this vaccine business is getting well worn now. Those who want 'em.......got 'em a long time ago. Those who don't.....won't. Or won't until someone close to them is severely sickened or dies.
The sides are the sides.
But what sticks in my craw over this trucker business is the bastardization of 'freedoms".
Their interpretation of freedom is to not be required to get a needle shot.
OK, fine. Don't get the friggin' shot. Go to your local Mayor's office and do a sit in.
But these trucker's misinterpretation of freedom requires that it restricts the freedom of so many many more. It is an exclusionary irresponsible brand of freedom. Freedom for me, but not thee.
Their freedom is worth more than yours.
We are the ones who have to lay off employees, see our shelves empty, stop our production lines, miss meetings, contracts, commitments, obligations, deadlines.
That's not their problem. They are 'free' from those responsibilities.
I try to imagine that I'm a trucker in my rig stuck 50 trucks back. I'm vaccinated. I have a time-deadlined perishable cargo. I have a hard commitment to pick up my next load after I've delivered this one. I have obligations that I must get to ....... for my aged and ailing parent, for my pregnant wife, for my kid's operation, for my hernia repair.
But.........but I'm stuck 50 trucks back because some crybaby snowflakes decided to f**k over me and all the others behind 'em......just so they can go all tantrummy over getting a friggin' shot.
Count me very very unsympathetic to that brand of freedom. A freedom for a few folks' that limits, restricts, prevents so many freedom for so many many other people.
Imagine the utility people in Ottawa, or Detroit, or Minneapolis, or your city, interpreting their "freedom" the same way. There goes your lights, your water, your gas.
The blocking truckers are criminals. And need pay a price.
