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Scoot: Graffiti suggests tagger knows more than doctors!

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Do you think anyone would go to a local pharmacy to get the vaccine for COVID-19, see the words “Don’t get the vaccine” in spray-painted graffiti on the sidewalk outside and suddenly change their mind about getting the shot?

That is obviously what some anti-vaxxer graffiti painters believe. Yesterday, “Don’t get the vaccine” was spray-painted on the sidewalk outside of A-1 Pharmacy in Metairie. The words, “fear no evil” appeared outside of the CVS on the same street.


The vandal responsible must assume that some people who will take the advice of a tagger over the advice of trained medical professionals. But in reality, I don’t believe anyone will change their minds about getting the vaccine because of a message in the form of graffiti they pass walking into a pharmacy.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incidents of vandalism and believe the two are related. Maybe they brought in a handwriting expert to analyze the penmanship?

The graffiti warning people about getting the vaccine exposes a serious mental deficiency on the part of the tagger, and it seems more like an attempt to force an opinion on others than it is a realistic attempt to change minds.

Dr. Julio Figueroa, an LSU Health infectious disease expert, described the graffiti messages as “distressing,” wondering where the vandal is finding information to support the directives.

The “fear no evil” graffiti appears to be a reference to several places in the Bible where that concept is presented, including, Psalm 23: 1-6, which states in part, “I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”

In the opinion of an Espiscopal priest, the tagger is abusing the faith. Fr. Bill Terry of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church says the tagger does not fully understand Christian tradition and is using Christianity as a weapon to fight a battle over ideology.

The individual responsible for using God to instill fear over the vaccine is a typical example of the misuse and abuse of Christianity to bully others with their ideology.

Ignoring the directives of an uninformed person is the right thing to do.