Cool cool. So am I!
I am pro-choice, and pro-life. And as you say, pro-phlyatic as I too believe in medicine or course of action used to prevent disease. Which includes masks and vaccines.
I’m a registered Republican and I have voted Democrat on occasion. Especially during Presidential elections when they idiotically choose a populist over a more experienced candidate.
I never liked the vaccine and masks mandates. I thought people should do the right thing and wear a mask/get a jab or two, without the government forcing it. At the same time, I was against these very people who refused to be “pro-phlyatic” as you say, and just started making shit up to justify their apathetic approach to the situation. So, naturally, when it was decided that people who are far more likely to be spreading the disease if they were exposed to 100 co-workers or customers; I found the compromise adequate.
Especially among people who worked in medical facilities, grocery stores, and big chain stores where customer service may be mandatory in a face-to-face setting. And the decision largely did not affect many small businesses who could not afford more changes in order to adapt to the social distancing protocols.
Still, a lot of asshats, who had a choice, chose to be terminated by refusing a vaccine that’s 99.9% safe over an illness with a survival rate of 90-97.8% survival rate. Then they turn around and blame the government, both local and federal, as if people’s lives are a game to them just so some orange turd could get a second term. These very asshats also support assholes in office who hypocritically shouted “my body, my choice” then turn around and make abortion illegal; potentially jeopardizing many pregnant women who may have a potentially fatal injury or illness from seeking treatment. Especially if those treatments pose a risk to their unborn child.
So, I suppose I will have to vote Democrat for awhile until Republicans learn that you can’t use the unborn as a political tool to rally voters to some shallow righteous cause without understanding all the repercussions that lead to Roe v Wade being necessary in the first place.
Foolishly, I believed this was not really the Republican’s endgame. I thought the radical right who want to continue their discriminations were left in check; but with Trump and his cronies; they’re now rampant and need to be contained. And to me, that means no longer tolerating the constant idiocy I witness.
