I surefire way to get vaccination numbers up using the Bible

An announcement is made that the current mRNA vaccines will be available only for another 3 months, after which there will be enough numbers of people who have it. If people what to get vaccinated after that they will have to take a more conventional one, the opportunity to get the mRNA will be closed. After the 3 months the records will be sealed and each person who as taken the mRNA vaccine will receive a seal as exempt to what is to come. Only those who take the mRNA vaccine will receive the seal.

What is to come is each person remaining will either have to undergo a weekly covid test or receive an annual conventional vaccine, after which they will receive a mark on their right hand which will have an indicator that will show for the time they would be safe. They would have to re-up whatever method they chose, and the mark would be updated. Those who are infirm, under the care of others will get the mark on the forehead instead. Without this mark those will not be allowed to participate in society, only with such a mark would they be allowed to do things such as buy anything.

Who would that convince that getting the vaccine now was the way to go?

I don’t want to Godwinize this thread, but I will. You know who else thought that marking a certain class of people was the way to go?

I din’t think anything could convince me to come around to the anti-vax point of view, but if the OP’s policy came into play, I’d have sympathy for the people who revolted.

Sounds more like the Mark Of The Beast.

So let me try and understand this.

You think that basically Christians should get the vaccine now, or be forced to have the “the mark of the beast” later on to get it and prove it?

Because that’s how some may interpret it, I think.

Revelations comes to mind.

I assume this is satire. If not, I don’t think the number of the beast is going to raise the vaccination rate.

We don’t need this mark of the beast stuff. The Bible contains all the pro-vaccine inspiration anyone might require. To wit:

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

  • Fauci 91:3-6

So the idea is to threaten Christians, “get the vaccine now or the mark of the Beast later?” Uh…errr…

What???

Moved to the BBQ Pit (from MPSIMS), since that’s where satire threads belong.

That’s absurd! Just because it will be issued at the point where 66.6% of the population is vaccinated that doesn’t mean anything.

So your plan is to have the government literally enact the “mark of the Beast” regime from Revelations? The one that evangelicals have been scared shitless of for centuries, which is why the US doesn’t have useful things like a national ID card?

hokay then. wow. there’s stupid, and then there’s stupid stupid.

Wait, kanicbird has developed a sense of humor?

I think you’re correct. Mr. bird’s sense of humor seems to be as idiosyncratic as his theology.

You know that those crazy covid denying Trump freaks don’t actually live their lives according to what is taught in the Bible, right?

I think it’s one of those perception = reality things. They believe they do, so it becomes their reality. From the outside, it’s astonishingly obvious how unchristian they are.

Sure, they don’t. But it seems to me that even those who don’t follow the Bible seem to freak out with endtimes stuff. They’re likely to be the type that avoids the number 666 and stuff like that. They have the superstition of their religion but balk on the underlying message.

Obviously the OP is a horrible idea in reality. But if there was some way to get them to think that getting the shot would protect them from the Antichrist or something like that, we’d probably get more uptake.

I don’t, however, see a way to do it. Even if we tried to spread some sort of rumor, it’d be hart to associate not doing something with the mark of the beast. They’d be more likely to think that taking the vaccine gives the Mark of the Beast.

Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some who already say that. The microchip nonsense already plays into that, as I was told by more than one person growing up that they suspected the Mark would be some sort of chip under your skin.

Battle the absurd with the absurd. I say Spread the Rumor. Say that Hillary Clinton personally endorses marking the unvaccinated, and George Soros is financing it. Take a Fauci quote entirely out of context and use good ol’ scare tactics that have been motivating their lives for years.

Science, truth, the high road, have not worked. Seeing their loved ones die off does not deter them. Send this to the Lincoln Project. They’ll know how to spin in.

Huh. Could be worth a try. If it works, next we could try spreading the word that voting for a Republican is a sin.