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Rantz: In bizarre rant, Gov. Inslee calls Trump voters ‘bioreactor facility’ spreading COVID in Washington
By Jason Rantz
July 20, 2021 at 5:38 am
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Inslee first implied you don’t have an individual right to get vaccinated, arguing that the decision puts others at risk.
“I’ve talked to folks who say, ‘this is an individual right if I want to run the risk of dying on an innervator [sic] after being sick for a month …,'” Inslee said, stumbling through a conversation he never really had, confusing an “innervator” for an “incubator” (I presume). “… The problem with that is you’re making a risk for everybody around you when you don’t get vaccinated.”
This is a disingenuous interpretation of the risk, of course. If the people around you are vaccinated, there’s a statistically insignificant risk of infection. And if you’re not vaccinated because you had COVID and currently have antibodies, you’re not a meaningful risk either.
But then he went off the deep end.
“Because you are a bioreactor facility generating virus and spreading it around, including to kids who can’t get vaccinated. I want to reiterate that. If you’re a 50-year-old man who, you know, voted for Donald Trump and didn’t think COVID was a problem and you don’t get vaccinated right now, you’re a risk to every kid in your city because you could be spreading the virus to a 10-year-old who can’t get eligible for the vaccine right now,” Inslee said. “Now some of us think that’s not responsible, and if that’s judgmental, so be it.”
It’s not so much that Inslee is being too harsh in his judgment. It’s that his comments do the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do....
By Jason Rantz
July 20, 2021 at 5:38 am
....
Inslee first implied you don’t have an individual right to get vaccinated, arguing that the decision puts others at risk.
“I’ve talked to folks who say, ‘this is an individual right if I want to run the risk of dying on an innervator [sic] after being sick for a month …,'” Inslee said, stumbling through a conversation he never really had, confusing an “innervator” for an “incubator” (I presume). “… The problem with that is you’re making a risk for everybody around you when you don’t get vaccinated.”
This is a disingenuous interpretation of the risk, of course. If the people around you are vaccinated, there’s a statistically insignificant risk of infection. And if you’re not vaccinated because you had COVID and currently have antibodies, you’re not a meaningful risk either.
But then he went off the deep end.
“Because you are a bioreactor facility generating virus and spreading it around, including to kids who can’t get vaccinated. I want to reiterate that. If you’re a 50-year-old man who, you know, voted for Donald Trump and didn’t think COVID was a problem and you don’t get vaccinated right now, you’re a risk to every kid in your city because you could be spreading the virus to a 10-year-old who can’t get eligible for the vaccine right now,” Inslee said. “Now some of us think that’s not responsible, and if that’s judgmental, so be it.”
It’s not so much that Inslee is being too harsh in his judgment. It’s that his comments do the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do....