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.
I get the expedited part...it fell under an older emergency use law.
This is NOT making sense, though....
>>The phase 3 trials were cut for the vaccines. The phase 3 trials were properly run. <<
How could they have been ‘properly run’, if they were cut?
No. I will not get the shots. Look at all the recalls of drugs that was years on the market. Then when the number of deaths became costly the will remove it.
Every drug advertised on tv tells you a laundry list of serious and fatal warnings. AND THESE VACCINES ARE STILL IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STAGES!!!
AND. we already have an OVER 95% Survival rate if we DO show symptoms and test positive.
No thanks.
No thanks! I’m not interested in some gene therapy that has never before been able to get FDA approval, and still doesn’t have FDA approval.
If people want to get a shot of something that is currently undergoing trials, that’s up to them. It’s also my choice should I refuse.
They were not cut short.
They were not cut short.
Then.....what did you mean by.....The phase 3 trials WERE CUT for the vaccines...?
Cut how/where/when?
I made a typing error. The phase 3 trials were not cut short.
Sheepdogs protect them.
I made a typing error. The phase 3 trials were not cut short.
The group sizes, in the trials, WERE cut.
“For Moderna, the initial interim analysis will be based on the results of infection of only 53 people. The judgment reached in interim analysis is dependent upon the difference in the number of people with symptoms … in the vaccinated group versus the unvaccinated group. Moderna’s success margin is for 13 or less of those 53 to develop symptoms compared to 40 or more in their control group.”
The other vaccine makers are basing results on a similar protocol, where only a limited number of vaccinated participants are exposed to the virus to evaluate the extent of their symptoms.
Johnson & Johnson’s interim analysis will include results from 77 vaccine recipients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and if fewer than 18 of them develop symptoms of COVID-19, compared to 59 in the control group, the vaccine will be considered successful.
In AstraZeneca’s case, the interim analysis includes 50 vaccine recipients. The vaccine will be a success if 12 or fewer develop symptoms after exposure to SARS-CoV-2, compared to 19 in the 25-person control group.
Pfizer’s interim analysis is the smallest of the bunch, with just 32 vaccine recipients. Their success margin is seven or fewer vaccine recipients developing symptoms, compared to 25 in the control group. In the primary analysis, efficacy is set to about 60%, and at most, 164 volunteers will be included in that analysis.
Especially concerning are that those receiving the vaccine in these trials are young and healthy individuals who are not really at high risk of dying from COVID-19. This makes the results of these trials highly questionable in the far more vulnerable population of the elderly.....
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A LOT of interesting info, regarding the trials, in the article....
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/10/27/covid-vaccine-trials.aspx
Yes...tehey were cut...that is why experimental..
I am familiar with trials too...(I sent you a FRmail)...these were not typical.
No one can predict with any accuracy what are long-term effects. However, with everyone getting the jab, we will find out.
Border collies are better, but that was not the point.
Why?
After a year; you should have already gotten covid!
Getting a ride in an airplane is as well.
So far...
Heck, we seen 'numbers' for over 40 years, since Roe V Wade.
They have not made any difference.
All this advertising is worth MILLIONS!
“I think it has mostly a placebo effect.”
I was hoping for that, i.e., that people who get the jab(s) would feel safe and begin living normal lives again. Still, the ones I know who’ve had the vax continue to live in fear, in masks, and distancing. [sigh] People’s minds are forever altered.
The Fauci fear porn has been evilly effective and provided the impetus for mail-in voting — exactly what it was intended to do. If it hadn’t been an election year, people would have remained sane and handled the situation as we’ve done for decades — as the enhanced flu that it was/is.
The author says, “take the shot”. I say NFW.
No, CV19
It will be Trumps fault for operation warp speed
Bought one of these (only with the 273 V8 in it).
Wife, daughter and I drove it to Florida to watch Armstrong launch to the moon.
Good times!
Got back home in time to watch them step out onto the moon on TV.
Think I wrote, if I was 20-30's I'd think twice about taking the vaccine.
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