This article is so poorly reasoned -- and so dangerous -- that I do not know where to begin responding.

But let me begin with the ridiculous rain metaphor. It is already raining. We're not debating whether it is raining. We're debating how to keep as many people possible dry because it is raining. If you want to walk in the rain and go home wet, more power to you. But if you want to walk in a downpour and come into the grocery store and shake your wet clothes on everyone else who needs to shop, you are being rude and hurtful. And if rain were COVID, you'd be deadly. If vaccines were 100% effective, and if 100% of people could get them, there would be a smidgen of truth to these deeply flawed arguments. But neither of these things is true.

It is highly irresponsible to be unvaccinated when the vaccine so clearly saves lives. If you want to live as a hermit in the woods and be unvaccinated, go right ahead. But if you are going to go around and potentially infect others -- including those rare but very real others with legitimate medical reasons why they simply can't get vaccinated -- then you are NOT just putting your own life at risk, you are unneccessarily putting the public in danger.

So being unvaccinated when you could easily get a vaccine is not EXACTLY like being a drunk driver. It's more like choosing to drive drunk and fast in high traffic settings when two sober friends offered you a free ride home. What we do affects others, and our right to choose ends precisly when our choices can hurt others. The reason we have speed limits, drunk driving laws, and motorcycle helmet laws is to promote public safety.

COVID-19 is ravaging states where vaccination rates are low, and it is fizzling out in states with high vaccination rates. It is our civic duty and moral obligation to be vaccinated unless there is a good medical reason not to do so.