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Take the Shot
Townhall.com ^ | March 27, 2021 | Charles Sauer

Posted on 03/27/2021 4:39:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

You can’t force a horse to drink water, and at least we shouldn’t talk about forcing people to get vaccines, but the horse should drink and everyone should get a vaccine. Vaccines have saved countless lives and increasingly enable our urban lifestyles by reducing or nearly wiping out spreadable diseases. Things like Polio, mumps, and smallpox have been nearly eradicated and if they were to pop up someplace, we are largely safe from a widespread pandemic from them because of vaccines. However, despite the history and the present evidence of their effectiveness – there is a large cohort of individuals that are still reluctant to take a vaccine.

In some ways – this is understandable if someone hasn’t done any research.

Maybe they listened to Jenny McCarthy and therefore believe that vaccines cause autism – they don’t. Maybe they are worried about putting a chemical into themselves – but we eat processed foods. Maybe they are worried that the science was rushed – it wasn’t. Maybe they are just worried about a needle – they shouldn’t be.

Jenny McCarthy’s crusade against vaccines was based on the inclusion of a preservative in many vaccines at the time – Thimerosal. Her contention, and her follower’s reasoning, was that Thimerosal caused autism. It didn’t – and doesn’t – and study after study after study proved that, but her crusade led many kids to be left unvaccinated and therefore some of those to come down with perfectly preventable illnesses.

One of the points of “Proof” they Jenny and her army put forward was a seeming correlation between vaccines and autism, but anyone that has taken a statistics class understands the problems with correlations. For instance, it appears that whenever Nicholas Cage is in a movie – that drownings in a pool increase. Now, if someone can prove that Cage’s appearances and the drownings are causal – and directly causal to Nicholas Cage – then maybe we should try to talk to him about not appearing in any more movies. But, we know that it just isn’t causal and just happens to an interesting and morbid correlational coincidence.

The same goes for people that think “injecting toxins” into their body is a problem – the science just doesn’t support this. There are lots of good things that we can inject into our bodies – and lots of things that we put into our bodies by choice that probably aren’t so good. Between the air that we breathe, the detergents that we use, the processing of the foods we eat, and even the additives in the water that we drink, this objection doesn’t hold up either. The “Chemicals” that are being injected are like good germs vs bad germs. Yes, there are plenty of bacteria in the world that are bad for you, but there are many that are good for you too. In fact, we likely have more bacteria living inside of us than we do cells. So, on a population basis we are more bacteria than ourselves.

What is being injected is a tool that our bodies can use to fight whatever disease the vaccine was intended for. For instance, the Pfizer vaccine basically has messenger RNA, sugar, and salt. The RNA is there to give your body the instructions it needs to fight COVID-19 and the rest is there to transport it and make it injectable. I have had glasses of water with worse ingredients.  

And lastly, there are those that are worried that the science was hurried. This is an interesting category because when we look at those that aren’t taking the vaccine there are more Trump supporters than Democrats that are currently refusing to take the vaccine – so either there are more Trump supporters that also believe Jenny McCarthy or while they supported Trump they didn’t actually believe him. Either way, they would be wrong when looking at this vaccine. While this vaccine was allowed to reach market sooner than some other vaccines, it was actually developed in early 2020 almost right after the pandemic was discovered. The time in between – almost a year – was spent testing to make sure that what was known scientifically was also true in practice. Furthermore, the research for an RNA vaccine had actually been going on for a longtime before the pandemic, and was a mature research area. The idea of the vaccine wasn’t novel, it was just this specific application, fighting COVID-19, that was novel.

For my family this isn’t an issue, we are vaccinated or plan to be vaccinated. And, I don’t truly care what your family decides. However, please don’t make a decision for you, your spouse, or your kids based on bad information, prior issues, or fear. Do your research. I am confident that it will lead to getting the vaccine – making sure that you and your family are safe and help the rest of use get back to normal faster – as well as not pay your hospital bills if you get sick.

Vaccines are safe. Ignorance isn’t.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: chinavirusvaccine; condescendingidiot; coronavirus; covid19; covidvaccine; freepers; trumpvaccine; vaccine
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To: Kaslin

Yeh OK sounds good. 😆


101 posted on 03/27/2021 7:33:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Everyone taking a shot will be dropping like flies. They aren’t smart or well informed. They are simply sheep in a field in constant fear of everything.


102 posted on 03/27/2021 7:36:56 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: nascarnation

‘Someone’ chose 2020 as the year to begin the destruction of western civ in order to install their great reset. These supposed immunizations for covid 19 are nothing of the sort. They are meddling with DNA to reduce symptoms of viral attack on the human immune system. Have you paused long enough to notice the unreal reduction in common annula flu stats? Trump may have been manipulated int o every action he took and unwittingly aided the globalist oligarchy’s agenda. He might also be an actor for their agenda. Do you suppose we will ever learn the truth, as the global reset takes over everything? HAH, wait around for the arrival of antichrist ...


103 posted on 03/27/2021 7:37:40 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Bayard

Wait for the variant to come along. I’m sorry.


104 posted on 03/27/2021 7:37:45 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: palmer

The adults are talking, get back in the pen with the other sheep. When push comes to shove, stand back amd watch real Americans stand for freedom. You’ve obviously not realized what this is all about. But hey, as long as you can take a vacation to Mexico or go on a cruise.


105 posted on 03/27/2021 7:41:49 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Kaslin

Experimental and unapproved. mRNA has never been used before and in past animal trials it was shown to be dangerous. The animal trials were skipped for Covid.
Last, even if one does take it, we will not regain our freedom by doing so. This is yet another of the moving goal lines.


106 posted on 03/27/2021 7:42:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Travis McGee

Krispy Kreme is just trying to get you into the store. You can’t eat just one of those fresh, hot, raised-glazed beauties. You need at least six. You pay for five and KK makes a handy profit.

“It’s a profit thing!!” </thejerk>


107 posted on 03/27/2021 7:45:27 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: HypatiaTaught

The founders would put that guy on a ship and return to sender.


108 posted on 03/27/2021 7:47:26 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Poser
Krispy Kreme is just trying to get you into the store. You can’t eat just one of those fresh, hot, raised-glazed beauties. You need at least six. You pay for five and KK makes a handy profit.

Then I get stuck with the bill for your insulin.

109 posted on 03/27/2021 7:48:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pollard

Stop spreading common sense, people love being scared 24/7.


110 posted on 03/27/2021 7:53:55 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: HypatiaTaught

>>“Reported deaths” are generally just 10% of the actual numbers.

So you are trying to prove your first lie by making up a second lie?


111 posted on 03/27/2021 7:55:22 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: Bulwyf

A Variant wont be novel and its believed that the vaccine is good enough for it.

Even If I get a booster later for some variant, the process of having a vaccine has put us ahead of any major changes to COVID imo.

I would get a booster vaccine if it was necessary at this point, since the Moderna has had no bad effects other than a second day fever that went away within 24 hours.


112 posted on 03/27/2021 8:14:40 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: DesertRhino

Month after second dose here. So far I feel perfectly fine.


113 posted on 03/27/2021 8:15:57 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard
Month after second dose here. So far I feel perfectly fine.

Me tosfdasfdasdoifjgspoifghsdfgaref

114 posted on 03/27/2021 8:18:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Travis McGee

Matt, you raise an very important and often ignored point: the very people who force these nostrums on us NEVER have to suffer the consequences of their words and actions!

Indeed, not “Who,” but “How will we blame and punish if this mRNA vaccine has effects like DES or Thalidomide, and we learn this later?”


115 posted on 03/27/2021 8:18:43 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: dfwgator

Interesting response. I wonder when a lot of FR people are going to admit they fell for another false flag by the Deep State wanting to marginalize them. By making them out to be total Kooks


116 posted on 03/27/2021 8:20:29 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Vinnie

I got my first Pfizer shot on March 6th; I go today to get the second one. No problems.


117 posted on 03/27/2021 8:25:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Kaslin

Great article that shows the vaccines are okay and shows their importance. Obviously, not everyone can take a vaccine for allergy or other health reasons. But, for those who can, they are definitely a great tool to protect yourself and your family.


118 posted on 03/27/2021 8:29:23 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Kaslin

Gave my slot to another Vet.

5.56mm


119 posted on 03/27/2021 8:45:33 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

I got some equine Ivermectin to have on hand. I take D3 and C every day.

My BIL got COVID over Christmas. Drank tonic water and swears by it shortening the sickness time....but who knows.


120 posted on 03/27/2021 9:00:15 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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