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.
If, after a few months, I have assured myself that those taking the vaccine are not turning into zombies, vampires or bats, I might consider taking it.
I had to sign an acknowledgement waiver of “experimental” to take the vaccine. I think it has mostly a placebo effect. It certainly has a power point with some folks and has been a factor for many monies somewhere. Death is more sure than taxes. So, why is the Redeemer’s grace more important than the current issue?
Good for the author! It is not the knowns that cause us to refuse the vaccine, but the UNKNOWNS. So, we take an experimental vaccine, for a flu-like virus that affects 8% of the population and has an overall survival rate in excess of 99%. And then, you are told to wear a mask and social distance after the shot.
I don’t get it! And, I won’t get it.
You can add “ cohort” to “deplorable” on the list of names Ive been referred to as.
After the outbreak of Guillain-Barre paralysis following the swine flu vaccination in ‘76, some argued that only a small percentage suffered. Well, if you happen to draw the winning ticket, to you it feels like 100%.
One thing the author has right; you shouldn’t force vaccinations into people. If the thing’s that good, it will sell itself. I’m not buying it.
Forced vaccines. Forced masking. Forced out of work. Forced to pay huge taxes on income and gas. Gasoline engine forbidden. Energy prices sky high. Tensions with Russia. Iran preparing to have its way with us. President unfit for office. Legitimate president forced out of office. Center cities destroyed and perps not prosecuted. People getting fired for “liking” something that is not politically correct.
Welcome to the new usa.
Lemmings can take their suicide vaccine all they wish.
They believe that they are ‘smarter’ than you and they’ve done their ‘research’, and are trusting of the so-called ‘authoritative sources’ of intel coming from the media.
When the next ‘wave’ hits it’ll be interesting to see the death counts of those who took the jab over those who didn’t.
Experimental inoculation with viral genetic material is not for me...the ‘vaccine’ is not a vaccine by definition for whatever that’s worth...I decline to receive an Experimental Genetic Inoculation for a disease which is survived by 99%+ of those infected...continue to develop improved treatments...there have been 1000s of reports of post vaccination adverse events up to and including death with active information suppression imo...
I’m not gonna twy it, you twy it.
I know.... let’s get Mikey.... he’ll twy anything.
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.
Precisely. These, however, only promise to lessen symptoms if you get it. Not much of a vaccine. Seems more like a treatment.
Never say never, but for now, pass.
Got the Moderna vaccine. Its been a month since the second dose. I feel fine.
My wife and I got the Pfizer shots in Feb. We’re both old. Not problems.
If I was in my 20’s or 30’s I might have pause though.
A healthy acquaintance Just passed from it. He was early 40’s.
Same - I’ve been breaking all the rules for quite some time and either haven’t gotten it or had such a mild case I never noticed it. I can’t see being part of a genetic experiment at my age.
I’m 100 days out from Pfizer and except for draining the blood from that sheep last night I’m basically OK.
The author of this article is not a woman of child-bearing age, so he/she/it can get immunized (not a vaccine) as often as suggested.
I have been immunized, ( have a need to travel) and am done with a mask ( local in Florida), but if i were thinking of ever having a child, I would not be foolish enough to be a guinea pig to discover what other consequences may occur. That’s too ‘ forever’ for me.
Long-term effects? NO ONE has ANY idea. Hard pass from me.
Why would I take the advice of leftists who are proven liars. COVID is not like Polio for most people.
Take your medical advice from some internet blogger...go right ahead.
FReepers will complain endlessly about government regulation that slows progress. So Trump moves the bureaucrats out of the way and lets private industry shine. Now FReepers complain about a "rushed" vaccine that's "experimental".
*rolls eyes* Whatever.
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