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Symptomatic dolts are stampeding Atlanta's hospitals and Covid-19 testing sites, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. 

According to local healthcare workers, 94% are unvaccinated. 

Georgia's governor has called in the National Guard to restore order.

Too bad the Guard can't restore sanity.

These chowderheads have had nine months and more to get their shots, but haven't.

And now they're panicky.

A former HHS employee has told me that to expect all Americans to become vaccinated is unrealistic.

Through the entire history of medicine, at best 85% of the population accepts the need to be vaccinated and complies.

A steady 15% of the population remains vaccine-resistant.

This figure corresponds precisely to the portion of Americans classified as "idiots, imbeciles and morons" by the medical establishment.

Coincidence?

No way. 

So I guess we shouldn't judge the people lining up for tests in Atlanta.

They can't help it.

They're buffoons.

Hard to Please

People who are hard to please, in other words, idiots.

― Marty Rubin

In today's New York Times, Harvard professor Dr. Sema Sgaier profiles the four types of Americans who resist the Covid-19 vaccine and suggests we mollycoddle them. To which I say screw that.

Sgaier surveyed 17,000 Americans and places the vaccine-avoiders into four categories:

Covid Skeptics—the idiots who think the vaccine is a Chinese plot. "Everyone in this group believes at least one conspiracy theory," Sgaier reports.

The Cost-Anxious—the idiots who worry about the vaccine's cost (it's free, of course).

System Distrusters—the idiots who feel maligned by doctors.

The Watchful—the idiots who are waiting for other idiots to get vaccinated first.

The good doctor recommends four ways to deal with the wretches: we should "hold conversations" with them; "offer them a "vaccinate later" option; "be transparent" about the vaccine; and "avoid trying to debunk what they believe" and instead "acknowledge how they feel."

That kid-glove approach sounds like good psychology. It may even be smart public health.

But we're talking about idiots here, and lots of them; in fact, 38% of Americans are idiots, according to Sgaier's survey. That's too many adults to mollycoddle, if we want to survive the "Commie threat from China."

"When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share," Lewis Black once said. "If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out."