All these people in The New York Times have egg on their faces...

Frustrated by the prospect of a new COVID surge, many vaccinated (liberals) Americans are blaming the unvaccinated...

Doug Robertson, 39, a teacher,Portland, Or

“I’ve become angrier as time has gone on,” said Doug Robertson, 39, a teacher who lives outside Portland, Ore., and has three children too young to be vaccinated, including a toddler with a serious health condition.

“Now there is a vaccine and a light at the end of the tunnel, and some people are choosing not to walk toward it,” he said. “You are making it darker for my family and others like mine by making that choice.”

Jim Taylor, 66, a retired civil servant in Baton Rouge, La.

“The virus is here and it’s killing people, and we have a time-tested way to stop it — and we won’t do it. It’s an outrage.”

Gov. Kay Ivey, Republican of Alabama

“It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks,” a frustrated Gov. Kay Ivey, Republican of Alabama, told reporters last week. “It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”

Josh Perldeiner, 36, a public defender in Connecticut 

Has a 2-year-old son, was fully vaccinated by mid-May. But a close relative, who visits frequently, has refused to get the shots, although he and other family members have urged her to do so. 

Perldeiner worries that his son, too young for a vaccine, may have been exposed. “It goes beyond just putting us at risk,” he said. “People with privilege are refusing the vaccine, and it’s affecting our economy and perpetuating the cycle.”

Elif Akcali, 49, who teaches engineering at the University of Florida, in Gainesville.

“If we’re respecting the rights and liberties of the unvaccinated, what’s happening to the rights and liberties of the vaccinated?” 

Lia Hockett, 21, the manager of Thunderbolt Spiritual Books in Santa Monica, Calif.

“I feel like if you chose not to get vaccinated, and now you get sick, it’s kind of your bad”

Carol Meyer, 65, of Ulster County, N.Y. 

Suggested withholding stimulus payments or tax credits from vaccine refusers. “I feel we have a social contract in this country with our neighbors, and people who can get vaccinated and choose not to get vaccinated are breaking it,”

Rising resentment among the vaccinated may well lead to public support for more coercive requirements, including mandates, but experts warn that punitive measures and social ostracism can backfire...