I am a healthcare worker and I live in a red state. Today I tried to get my COVID vaccine and I was told I was not eligible.

I was shown a list of qualifying conditions and one of them is mental disorder.

I told the pharmacist that I am crazy; therefore, I am eligible for thhttps://www.cdc.gov/covid/index.htmle vaccine.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.world
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    My goodness. What a load of crap. I’m sorry to hear you had to go through that. I wish there were more level headed people in higher positions in our country. But that’s just not the case as much as one would hope.

    Remember, these are some of the same people who thought 'adding bleach to your bloodstream could ‘cure’ you of COVID-19, and that a horse dewormer could also be a likely ‘cure’.

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      Level-headed people don’t want to rule the world, or force others to do things their way. Only assholes do, which is why they destroy everything good set up by those just trying to help their fellow humans.

      People who believe that stupid crap are people who have been trained by bullies since childhood to do & believe what they’re told, and it’s so ingrained from such a young age that their obedience is instinctive even when it’s self-destructive.

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        The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

        To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

        To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.