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.
This is a loud mouth political staffer, political aid & lobbyist . Nothing else. He has no foundation or education that would make him an authority on anything other than how to lie to the constituencies of his employer or how to lobby other politicians for the benefit of his clients.
I’m very leery of a vaccine that they are promoting for people who already had the disease. Also, if they are going to force me to wear a face diaper even after I get the shot, why go through the hassle for a disease with a 99.9% survival rate for those under 65?
There is no reason for my husband son and I to take it, as we are all on self impost quarantine. Both my husband and I are senior citizen, my husband will be 83 next month, and I will torn 80 in August. My son goes and buys groceries about twice a month. He wears a mask of course. I wished he would let me go with him sometimes, as I feel like I am in prison, but he refuses. I have a degenerative disc decease and degenerative hip joint and need a cane to walk. If he does take me we go to one of the Walmarts that are in our are. but the one store we go to they have set the speed of the handicapped carts at the lowest speed, which is ridiculous.
That's a big improvement.
I had Covid, had much worse colds. People can afford to be more skeptical of a vaccine, especially with this amount of propaganda, to treat a disease that simply isn’t a big deal for the overwhelming majority of us.
If you believe China created the virus, it seems at least possible that they built in some kind of literal dead man’s switch for when the virus is combined with a vaccine.
I’m with you Kaslin. I’ve called it ControllaVirus from the onset because this has been more about control than virus and I’m just not interested in participating in the sham.
No proof for this statement is offered, yet these vaccines hit the market faster than any other vaccine in history.
Yeah--I think the science was rushed.
If the author ‘doesn’t care’ the why did he write the bloody article?
Its killed enough people the world basically shut down.
I hate the fact that we did it that way. I just don’t see a way around “drinking the drink of the natives,” there is no road map for me to do otherwise in the climate today.
The shot didn’t do anything truly harmful to me. So I will continue to tell others about my experience.
Agreed.
I am keeping an eye on the J&J vaccine. I think it is a normal (non mRNA) type.
Nobody remembers DES, or Thalidomide? Three of my sisters were rendered infertile because my mother took DES (”safe and approved!”) during pregnancy.
My sisters did not find out they could not have children until they married, 20 or so years later.
Thalidomide was much worse. How can they know the long-term effects of this “warp speed” mRNA “vaccine?”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thalidomide+babies&t=chromentp&atb=v134-1&iax=images&ia=images
Thalidomide is still used in animal (cats and dogs) vaccines.
Obviously it makes sense to take the shot at this point in time. That calculus could change to where the risk of catching it is low because everyone else has taken the shot and the disease is no longer spreading. That's why it made sense to not take the measles shot. We eradicated measles so the shot had more risk than the disease. But then measles came back so now we have a situation where measles shots are starting to make sense again.
Utlimately the level of risk should be an individual decision, based on a person's own particular risk factors and lifestyle. I am getting the shot as soon as I get eligible. In some states I would already be eligible.
Here’s the thing Travis, free donuts and the ability to walk freely on the Rutgers campus will be enough for many to comply with the vaccine psychos. Everything we feared 20 years ago is happening now in real time.
The shot has a 99.9999% survival rate from what I have researched.
In a few months, the current vaccines will require targeted booster shots to cover for CURRENT mutations. Current mutations will continue to mutate down the line until either GLOBAL herd immunity is achieved, simultaneously, or we surrender to science and walk around with a drip IV which continually infuses us with the latest vaccine brew. It’s science, baby!
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