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.
It is not a vaccine, therefore I will not inject myself with ignorance.
The most dangerous part of the Covid Vaccination is driving to and from the site
So Trump’s promoting a sham?
There have been over 12,000 deaths due to this injectable.
However you will never hear about it from our B.S. media.
Good luck to you.
I believe the world shutting down for Covid is unique to the time period we’re in. It wouldn’t have happened even in recent past. I will say though, the rapid vaccine development is incredible, and I have no issue with people getting it, to each their own.
I’ve never had the flu/shingles/pneumonia shots and I’m not about to have this one.
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.
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Anytime someone bitches about what is happening, I say EBRACE THE SUCK.
People think if they just do one more like take the “shot”, they can go back to “normal”...
This COMMIE CRAP is here stay folks. Unless we have balls enough to fight back.
Cohort, Deplorable and don’t forget Reckless!
I love my new names! :)
bless the authors heart.
Wish you well, but let’s see in 2 to 4 years...
>>Why would I take the advice of leftists who are proven liars.
So Trump lied to us about it being safe?
I know. It is uncanny, isn’t it.
I’ve pondered this for quite a few months now. Trump did what he thought best to do. Could it be a mistake? Time will tell I guess.
One thing the author doesn’t mention: the shot helps against the disease (Covid) but isn’t tested against the virus (SARS-cov2). Take it if you fear the disease, but don’t think it keeps you from spreading the virus.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1375410037997338633
@AlexBerenson
The coronavirus: 3 to 6 times as deadly as the flu (based on worldwide IFR and death estimates).
The coronavirus vaccine: 500 times as deadly as the flu vaccine (based on VAERS reports per fully vaccinated person).
It’s not the flu vaccine, bro.
6:31 AM · Mar 26, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
The shot has a 99.9999% survival rate from what I have researched.
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From the same data that selected our new president.
Hey, if you want to take it, take it.
Allow the freedom of others to not take it.
Geezus, we are so freaking far from our founding principles.
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.
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From what I hear, I bet it is more Rats than Conservatives which can’t be a bad thing. :)
Who will we blame and punish if this mRNA vaccine has effects like DES or Thalidomide, and we learn this later?
Or it got loose before they fully developed it.
I was reading last week or so, there was an accident at the Wuhan lab just before the outbreak.
The same can be said about Covid: As a previous poster noted, "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%."
But as you point out, if a close friend or family member is the person who draws the winning Covid ticket, to you it feels like 100%.
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