The bullshit regarding vaccinations and "medical privacy."

Of all the inane arguments made for rejecting vaccine mandates, perhaps the spectacularly stupidest is, "Hey, asking whether I've been vaccinated violates my right to medical privacy!" Let me explain why that excuse is monstrously fucking stupid.

You've already heard the dumbassery about how vaccine mandates violate one's right to medical privacy under the Charter, and the Criminal Code of Canada, and the British North America Act, and the Magna Carta, and the Ten Commandments, and the Code of Hammurabi, and the Interstellar Statutes of Proxima IV, and so on, and so on, and so stupidly on. But this argument is so much weasel poop since, with few exceptions, Canadians (and people in general) gleefully violate their own medical privacy on a regular basis. Let me explain via examples.

If you show up at work with your leg in a cast and a bandage on your wrist, it's totally expected to hear, "Whoa, dude, what happened to you?" To which it would be a bit shocking for you to snap back, "Hey! How dare you violate my medical privacy by asking that question!" No, you probably wouldn't be such an asshole. Rather, you'd say, "Ah, was walking the dog and there was a squirrel and ... well, you know the rest." And it would register on no one that asking what happened to you, and you telling them, involved a violation of your precious medical privacy.

And if you showed up at work with an appallingly swollen jaw and sporting numerous delightful colours of the rainbow, and someone exclaimed, "Holy shit, Karen, have you been hanging out with David Menzies again?", you probably wouldn't tell them to mind their own fucking business because Charter and rights and blah blah blah. No, you'd describe how you recently had all your wisdom teeth out, whereupon others would chime in, "Oh, yeah, I remember getting mine out," and everyone would try to outdo each other with their own wisdom teeth-related horror stories, and no one would be shrieking hysterically, "Medical privacy!"

Hell, most people have no problem sharing their medical history with total strangers: "Bartender, a double of your best single malt, I'm celebrating my recent knee replacement." And the total stranger next to you might pipe up, "Really, I had mine three months ago, who did yours?" And you'd spend the next hour comparing surgery stories, with nary a thought about Charter violations or medical segregation or discrimination, the point being that people who scream hysterically about privacy with respect to COVID-19 vaccinations are utter hypocrites when it comes to virtually every other aspect of their medical history.

Now, there are situations where you would definitely want to protect your medical privacy, which involve issues you'd rather not become public knowledge for one reason or another. For example, you might not want anyone to know you're currently in chemo for cancer, or that you're in therapy for depression, that sort of thing, the kind of thing that, in some way, you would find embarrassing or humiliating, and that's perfectly understandable. But if that's your argument, then you kind of need to explain how that applies to getting a COVID-19 vaccination shot.

In what way would it be embarrassing or humiliating to reveal that? Who exactly would (even hypothetically) think less of you for that? Oh ... the confrontational assholes who are milking this entire situation for the grift of a lifetime, that's who. It's simply incomprehensible to argue that getting a vaccine shot would diminish your reputation, except among people who are total twats to begin with in the first place and are trying to make a public spectacle of their refusal.

In short, this whole nonsense about "medical privacy" is just that -- nonsense. The blathering buffoons who shriek hysterically about this are the same ones who are more than happy to yammer on about their wisdom teeth, or appendectomy, or shoulder surgery, or damn near anything else, but will draw the utterly meaningless line at vaccinations. That's pretty much the definition of hypocrisy.

Thanks for stopping by.

P.S. One more point worth making. Invariably, the people who whine the loudest about this are the ones who regale us with stories about how they walked up to a restaurant that clearly explained that it was enforcing vaccine mandates, and were asked to produce their vaccine certificates, and began ranting about their rights, and privacy, and Nazis and so on. To which there is a simple response.

If you saw the sign that said you needed to be vaccinated, and you knew you were going to refuse to produce proof, why the fuck did you try to get in anyway, other than for the pure public spectacle? If you knew you were going to be refused entrance, what was the purpose of your asking to be seated, other than your wanting to cause a scene, probably for the video you were going to post later?

If you honestly think being asked whether you've been vaccinated against a deadly virus is such a savage violation of your rights, here's a suggestion -- avoid the places that clearly advertise you need to be vaccinated. How difficult is that?