No Fly Zone the Unvaccinated
Remember the film 12 Monkeys?
Bruce Willis goes through hell and back to stop David Morse from spreading a world-killing virus and ends up at the airport because hopping on a plane with a deadly disease is the absolute best way of infecting everyone.
Flying is not a right, and the case for restricting it to vaccinated people is straightforward: The federal government is the sole entity that can regulate the terms and conditions of airline safety. And although air-filtration systems and mask requirements make transmission of the coronavirus unlikely during any given passenger flight, infected people can spread it when they leave the airport and take off their mask. The whole point of international-travel bans is to curb infections in the destination country; to protect itself, the United States still has many such restrictions in place. Beyond limiting the virus’s flow from hot spots to the rest of the country, allowing only vaccinated people on domestic flights will change minds, too.
Eating indoors is not a right.
Going to concerts is not a right.
Seeing a movie in a theater is not a right.
Getting a haircut in a salon is not a right.
Swimming in a pool? Not a right.
Riding a bus? Not a right.
Gambling in a casino? Not a right.
I'm not interested in a fucking shame campaign directed at people who think required vaccination is a Nazi move (let's be honest, it's not Nazi to require people protect themselves and others by getting a vaccine against a pandemic but it is Shotzy) because shame is like torture—ineffective and objectively shitty.
I am interested in making getting vaccinated a requirement to do more than self quarantine. If someone decides to avoid getting the stab, rock on, but then they can sit in their fucking bunkers while the rest of us live life.
