Posted on 07/22/2021 4:22:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let me start with the obligatory disclaimer: I’m not against you or anyone else getting a COVID shot. This is not a column to dissuade you, judge you, or impugn you if you have, will, want to, or won’t get the shot. I’m just a guy who watches and comments on the news for a living and I have questions that haven’t been satisfactorily answered to my understanding.
Now, may I continue without being turned over to Jen Psaki’s Ministry of Truth in violation of the misinformation codes?
How can anyone from your neighbor to officials in the Biden administration talk about this pandemic while completely ignoring the southern border? But they sure are. Constant harping on the rapid spread of a new variant and the irresponsibility of those who won’t get the shot, but never once acknowledging the hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated pouring across our borders illegally every month?
These people are arriving not only unvaccinated against COVID, but it’s safe to assume unscreened for a whole host of maladies from whooping cough to head lice. The government then scatters them like a handful of grass seed across the lower forty-eight states and we’re all supposed to pretend that doesn’t exacerbate the spread of a highly contagious virus?
In the last couple of weeks we’ve discovered major league baseball players, Olympic athletes, Texas Democrats, and White House and congressional staffers have all tested positive for COVID. All of them vaccinated, yet all contracted and even transmitted the virus anyway. Kamala Harris was exposed to the Texas group and was rushed to the hospital for testing. Why? She got the shot, right?
When I bring this up I get an earful of, “Nobody said the vaccine was 100% guaranteed!” That’s true enough, but it’s also true nobody said, “Get the shot and you’ll likely still have to wear masks and worry about new variants you’ll catch despite the shot.”
I also hear, “The shots are meant to keep you out of the hospital if you contract COVID. It’s to keep you from dying!” I see. Then can we agree this no longer fits the definition of “vaccine?” That’s a shot. Like the flu shot the corner drug store nags you to get annually. So can we call it a shot and be honest about what it might or might not do?
Can we be honest we’re not entirely clear how long lasting the shot is or if there are long-term side effects? Or if we’ll need regular shots as boosters? Can we be honest that while this virus has killed a great many people, it’s still a statistical anomaly it will kill most people? Can we discuss herd immunity and natural antibodies anymore or are those concepts verboten?
I also wonder about the claim the shot will make COVID less serious if I catch it. Isn’t it true most healthy people who catch COVID won’t experience serious illness or death anyway? So, if I’m a reasonably healthy person (and yes, I realize there are anecdotal stories where this isn’t universally true) – isn’t it accurate to say with or without the shot my likelihood of surviving COVID is extremely high?
“But why take the risk,” some bark. “Why do you care,” I reply. If the shot makes you and those you love feel secure, why isn’t that sufficient? Why must I do what you do for your safety? It makes no sense. Unless you doubt the shot’s efficacy?
Then there’s the matter of my kids. The FDA’s emergency use authorization says kids twelve and up should run out there and get their shot, too. Some are even cheering the idea of allowing kids to do so without parental approval.
There’s palpable excitement to rush emergency use authorization for kids under twelve as well. Wait, didn’t we spend most of the last year with the one common understanding kids weren’t dramatically impacted by the virus? Weren’t there serious questions as to whether they could even spread the virus?
“That was before the variant,” they shout. “OK, and what if there’s another variant,” I reply.
As of last count approximately four hundred young Americans under the age of eighteen have died from COVID complications. In response to that statistic, CDC Director Walenski testified, “No children should die.” Ideally, sure - and no houses should catch fire and no swimmers should drown and no one should drive slowly in the passing lane on the highway.
When Kansas Senator Roger Marshall asked Walenski how many of those four hundred were otherwise healthy children before contracting COVID she said she didn’t know. But shouldn’t she? The answer is none. No kids have died from COVID who didn’t have preexisting conditions. Why doesn’t that matter in the discussion? And why are all kids recommended to mask up again this fall regardless of vaccine status? What’s the point of it all?
I’m not trying to mislead or scare or shame anyone when discussing COVID and the shot. I pray everyone stays well and does what’s best for them and their families in consultation with their doctors. But it seems a fair number of my fellow Americans and government officials view people like me as an enemy simply because I have perfectly reasonable questions.
They brand my questions as “misinformation” while demanding I shut up and “do the right thing.” But somehow I doubt this bullying is out of concern for my well-being. In fact, I suspect a good number of these folks would be all-too-happy to see something happen to someone like me just for the “told you so” satisfaction.
The fact is millions of us have questions. Many more than I laid out here. We’re not shutting up. We’re not going away. We’re not going to be shamed into submission. Americans have never been in lockstep. We have a proud tradition of individualism and independent thought. If you believe a less than one-year-old shot for an as-yet-to-be-understood virus should change that tradition, I have one more question.
What’s the matter with you?
I am anti vaccine...........100%
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Especially when the vaccine is totally useless.
Author says he is simply pro-questions, but doesn’t that mean he should have some interest in getting answers? With a small amount of research he would find that most of his questions have been answered for months.
The Swine Flu vax program was shut down after 25 deaths.
Dr. Peter McCullough on the threat that the vaxx represents.
Posted on July 21, 2021
[Truly outstanding 20 minute embedded Rumble video at link, don’t miss it.]
https://vladtepesblog.com/2021/07/21/dr-peter-mccullough-on-the-threat-that-the-vaxx-represents/
Poor Chris Stigall.
He just doesn’t get it.
Rush Limbaugh trained us well.
Thuis whole dynamic of Leftist Pressure for vaccination is designed to backfire and is NOW
keeping people FROM being vaccinated, while the left LOOKS LIKE they are trying to get everyone vaccinated.The advertising, the presidential imprecations, ( so many people hate him), the use of a pop star to wangle the fix, and all of the rest simply turns people away , because they know the vaccine is experimental and does not give much lasting immunity as exemplified by Israel.A loty of people are using Ivermectin for prophylaxis.
Its a massive reverse psychology ploy by the left, easily detectable by the bull shit meter.
The left wants to extend the pandemic into the Nov 3 2022 election for a “cheat repeat” in several Democrat Controlled swing states...Jim Crow 2.0 etc.
Look at the major vector for sustained Covid 19 infection across the whole country....the illegal aliens streaming across the border , who are left untested=, untreated, with over 10% of them Covid positive. The Dems are creating a superspreader event that is going on right now as we speak.
And whats more no one is saying a thing about it, which is why the distribution system and final destination of illegal alien transport from the Southern border area is NOT DISCLOSED.
California is a leading election cheat repeat candidate.
People just have no idea of how low these leftist totalitarians will go, after letting criminals run rampant in our cities.The People have no idea at all.
But PDJT and his organization know. And they are the only one’s in this fight right now.
We need to spread the news.
agreed
I think you miss the point.
By asking the ignorant questions, you force them to reply in a non confrontational way.
Lawyers use this technique often. So do crime investigators. In a criminal investigation your own words can either convict or free you.
It even requires the more sensible to do their own research.
I totally agree
If you choose not to get the vaccine then that is your decision and the government should not be able to force you to get it against your will. And if you get COVID then that’s your decision too.
With all due respect, I must disagree with your assertion that ‘no one’ is talking about it.
Fact is: EVERYONE’S talking about it. What I’ve noticed is everyone is getting a false narrative. Most people see right through it, and THAT’S what they’ve been talking about. Was at a dinner party last week where the conversations were similar to this article in question; and most of the folks in the room were inoculated.
People are talking about it so much that Facebook can’t censor things fast enough; which is why they’re getting heat from Alphabet Soup (A.K.A. government/media complex).
I am among those that believe the number of inoculated is well below the 50% level, and what I smell from alphabet soup is panic - over something.
And about the mail-in ballots? Oh, they’ll have to do that anyway as that’s the only way of winning an election. I wrote warnings about this. We need more bodies in seats at the polling places to beat it.
jimjohn - OUT
Yeah, its like your girlfriend is on the pill, but you still have to wear a condom.
Atta Go JimJohn.
But the MSM is NOT talking about it. Certainly Rusk Limbaugh would be.
The left are in panic mode and heads are exploding in every MSM loo from coast to coast.
They have new name “ Lefty Poppables!”
I mis Rush. He would be all over this.
Perhaps it is as simple as they know it really was a man made virus and are trying to get a hold of the problem before it mutates into something that cant be fought.
It should mutate into less deadly but more contagious...if its not man made. If it is man made...then who knows
The only time my 84 year old husband gets out of the house is when he goes to the end of of our front lawn to the mail box and gets the mail out.
I myself am handicapped and have trouble walking. I can only walk with a cane, as I have a degenerative disc decease, and degenerative hip-joint decease. Our son does the grocery shopping and wears a mask when he does, but he refuses to let me go with him. None of us have even been tested, and I absolutely refuse to let someone stick a swab in my nose up to my brain. I don't have a cough and when I sneeze it's only once a weeks.
We were stationed at Fort Riley, KS in the 70s when there was a report of Swine flu. There was however no report of someone getting the disease and after a few days you didn’t even hear a peep about it anymore.
“Perhaps it is as simple as they know it really was a man made virus and are trying to get a hold of the problem before it mutates into something that cant be fought”.
They have already done what you are saying. It is the vaccines. Right now they are demonizing the J&J because they need a scapegoat to blame this whole experimental disaster on. They want to continue on with the real program regarding the real reason for the fake vaxes.
45k unreported dead in 3 days after the vaxx + 12000 reported dead after vaxx is compelling…
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