bert wrote: “Oh yes and to magnify your point, China had no vaccine and hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions died from Covid. To provide treatment, patients were given IV’s figged between street light poles, outside on the street. Crematoriums were swamped and required wait times of days if not weeks. There is lots of video record attesting to the above.”
The anti-vaccine cult here on FR refuses to remember those reports since admitting the perceived lethality of COVID completely undermines their narrative.
That narrative goes so far as to declare that the COVID virus never existed (yes, some actually proclaim that). Some also proclaim that COVID and the vaccine are part of an insidious plot to reduce the earth’s population to a few million, that the vaccine is far more lethal than the virus.
Whether the virus was really as lethal as initial reports indicated isn’t the issue. The issue is that the virus was perceived to be a new pandemic even more lethal than the spanish flu justifying the actions that were taken. After all, what if the COVID virus had been that lethal and no precautions were taken?
It’s very interesting to review the history of vaccination. The same arguments made against the COVID vaccine are almost identical to those made against the first vaccinations, small pox in the late 1700’s. Then it was claimed the small pox vaccine would turn people into a cow. Now it is claimed the covid vaccine will alter your DNA. Then it was claimed the smallpox vaccine contained bat feces. Now it is claimed the covid vaccine contains various poisons that kill.
No, todays response is the same, today’s opponents of the vaccines are still living in the 1700’s.
It is reported that many of the antivax folks don’t brush their teeth because of floride in the toothpaste