Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/19/politician-who-opposed-mandato.html
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I, for one, can get behind more politicians spending four days in hospitals.
Also,
People getting sick is never amusing, so I am not laughing, and I especially won’t laugh when he later develops shingles, which I understand is very painful.
So if someone is willfully and stupidly poking at a bee hive all of their own volition…you aren’t a little pleased when they get stung by said bees?
There’s a shingles vaccine. If he gets shingles too, it will be because he abjectly failed to learn his lesson.
Tom Hanks, The Money Pit, specifically the bathtub scene.
Laughing.
Forever.
However, seeing as he’s a person that can set policy, and either do good or damage with his words and actions, for me it’s satisfying that he be given an abject lesson in the results of this particular point of view.
The question I have is has this experience changed his opinion on vaccination?
Or does he still believe in everyone’s God given right to get sick and possibly die from something that’s preventable?
While I appreciate the irony, I think the writers of this timeline are getting a bit lazy. Let’s try for something a little subtler in future episodes, shall we?
Long-term, there is no way this isn’t a win for him though.
Decides to stick it out as anti-vax? “He’s willing to be one of the minority who actually get the disease! And he lived! What’s the problem?”
Decides to capitulate and got pro-vax? Nobody gets more praise than the prodigal son returned.