Vax this

 The lowly Kansas City Royals went up to Toronto yesterday and beat the Blue Jays 3-1, and if that's the high point of their season it's a pretty lofty one. 

After all, they not only conked the Jays. They conked Peawit Nation, too.

See, the Royals went to Toronto without 10 of their regulars, because 10 of their regulars decided to personally choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Canada, unlike the U.S., takes that stuff seriously, on account of COVID is still out there and probably always will be, and it's still all kinds of nasty.

The Personal Choosers, however, remain undeterred. They're also peawits, because the Blob is tired of being told it has to coddle anti-vaxxers because Personal Choice is what America was founded on, apparently, and that deserves our respect even if we disagree.

Well, horse pucky to that, as Col. Potter used to say.

I'm going to continue to call them peawits, because that's what they are and the Blob is way past the point of being nice about it. The volume of misinformation and nonsense out there now about the COVID vaccine means being nice about it is no longer an option. If you haven't gotten the jab yet, you're a peawit. Also a numbskull. Also a few other words I'll refrain from using because this is a nominally family Blob.

"Oh, real nice, Mr. Blob," you're saying now. "Resorting to name-calling, are we? That's never won an argument, and it won't this time."

True. But I'm not trying to win an argument. You can't argue with anti-vaxxers, first of all. They know what they know, or think they do, and what they don't know they either don't want to know or dismiss as "fake news."

Fine, then. Believe what you want. Believe the vaccine is a plot by Dr. Fauci, who of course is in league with Big Pharma. Believe it's the vaccine that's killing people, not COVID. Believe it's totally ineffective because the vaccinated are still getting COVID, even though vaccines do not and never have guaranteed you won't get what you've been vaccinated for. That's not how they work.

But, hey, believe what you want. It's your Personal Choice, after all. 

Just as it's mine to call you a peawit. 'Cause you are.