(Oct. 7, 2021, 6:35 p.m.) -- For the record and posterity, I want to reveal that I've been vaccinated this year for the flu and for Covid-19, the latter of which I received two Moderna shots in January and a booster one in August.

I did it on my own accord and the belief it could be beneficial to my health.

But, if I chose not to, I could have kept it to myself---even lied about such a choice---and nothing untoward would happen to me other than, well, my recent four-day visit to San Francisco would have been slightly altered because without proof of vaccination I wouldn't have been able to check into the Grand Hyatt, nor would I have been able to dine at Tadich Grill, Scoma's, Hunan Home's, Nopa and Sears.

In other words, it wouldn't have been practical for me to go to San Francisco if I didn't have vax documentation although I'm sure I could have found sleeping accommodations at a homeless shelter or curled up in a bedroll at Golden Gate Park and also could have found culinary goodies around Fishermen's Wharf from the many street vendors in the vicinity.

Yet, in 2021 America, land of the free, there are many millions of people who have shunned the Covid-19 vaccination for a variety of personal reasons, which is their private choice.

Yet, many of these people---teachers, professors, cops, firemen, professional athletes, etc., etc., etc., are under siege by these Draconian mandatory governmental Covid-19 edicts in which they face loss of jobs, even in some cases loss of pensions, if they don't acquiesce to these mandates.

And I think such a course is a scandalous intrusion on an American citizen's private rights.

I'm passionately in favor of the Covid-19 vaccination, but I'm also passionately in favor of those opposing it to retain their Constitutional freedoms.

I find it a discomforting feeling when those faceless souls with their own, in many cases, vacuous agendas are the ones instituting these ironclad rules that force too many to do what they don't want to do with the threat of losing their jobs hanging ominously over them.

I don't recall governmental mandates on the polio and flu and small pox shots being forced on the public across the decades---and those shots also have been instrumental in the prevention of the spread of deadly diseases.

What are the various governments in this country---the federal, the state, the county, the city---going to do next? Open up our borders and allow thousands, even millions, of undocumented foreigners to invade our country? Allow shop-lifting and looting to become a popular pastime for criminals without fear of penal reprisal? Wipe out zoning laws and allow four-family unit residences to be built throughout communities who overwhelmingly are against such insanity?

``We're becoming a Marxist state,'' says a close friend of mine who wants to remain anonymous because such an utterance would gain him pariah status among some co-workers and even close friends.

I'm not sure I'll go that far, although I will if the federal government ever begins snooping into the bank accounts of law-abiding American citizens.

Oops, I just had one of those dreaded senior moments, and momentarily forgot the Biden Administration has plans to do just that under the phony guise of catching IRS tax cheats. . .

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