{"id":273,"date":"2021-10-18T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:21:10","slug":"the-holocaust-and-sca-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"The Holocaust and SCA Vaccine Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Holocaust and SCA Vaccine Mandates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Introduction – Yad Vashem<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In 2012, I took a ten day Taglit (Birthright) trip to Israel. I traveled with a group of other 23-26 year old American Jews from across the country, and experienced a nation which I had never been to but which had been part of my lexicon for as long as I could remember. As part of those 10 days, we visited Yad Vashem – the Israeli Holocaust museum.;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At the end of the very long walk through a very affecting tour of the museum, visitors are drawn to the final room. In it there is a cone shape on the ceiling, and a hole in the floor. You are instructed to look down into the hole, into the well, to look at the water reflecting what is above you. In the reflection of the water you see pictures–the faces of victims, hundreds of them, all looking up at you from the depths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/museum\/holocaust-history-museum\/hall-of-names.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The very first picture I saw, staring at me from the water and across time, could have been my mother. I felt like my entire body had been punched, and I had tears in my eyes as I walked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After that we went to the Children\u2019s exhibit. To get there we passed a piece of art I still remember vividly–pieces of rebar coming out of concrete, their ends roughly cut. This, we were told, represents what the Nazis tried to do to us by killing our children; because when you cut rebar, you cannot keep building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The children\u2019s exhibit is a long hallway of mirrors reflecting candlelight, zig zagging from the entrance to the exit. While you walk through and see thousands of candles reflected a voice reads the names, ages, and birthplaces of victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Needless to say, we were emotionally wrecked after that day. We all sat outside the children\u2019s exhibit, just destroyed and gathering our emotions and our wits back as we tried to remember how to be human again. I will never forget the things I saw and felt inside that museum, a testimony to the time when a modern and civilized nation decided that my people were impure and needed to be purged from existence. A time which is still within living memory, albeit less and less so every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Which leads me to say, once again, this: STOP COMPARING THINGS THAT MAKE YOU MAD TO THE FUCK MOTHERING HOLOCAUST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The SCA has passed some COVID restrictions which are designed to protect the populace. In Calontir starting next month you either have to show you are fully vaccinated, or show a negative COVID test from within the last 72 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That\u2019s it. Either a free, widely available, and safe vaccine that gives you a lovely little card you can have laminated or buy a pass for, or you have to prove you don\u2019t have COVID. It is, honestly, the least that the SCA could have done to protect us, and what should have been in place since we were allowed to have events again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And boy howdy are some people Big Mad about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There are some arguments against these rules that don\u2019t make me so angry that I could spit. I think they\u2019re bad arguments, but they don\u2019t make me have a screaming fit. Let\u2019s run through one, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. \u201cBut it\u2019s exclusionary\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Yes, it is. The SCA is, on the whole, a fairly exclusive organization. Our current (much needed and very welcome) attempts at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, are designed to break down the barriers of implicit, accidental, structural, or overt racism, sexism, and bigotry that keep people from participating in the SCA. But the rest of the SCA? Pretty exclusionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Let\u2019s look at all the things you need to do in order to officially attend an event in the Kingdom of Calontir. These are the listed requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n