Beware, the COVID-19 vaccine push is about to go into overdrive.
I’ve noticed the trend for some time, but it was rammed home by a doctor’s visit last week. The occasion was the routine 6-month checkup that in this era of the Affordable Care Act passes for interaction with a family doctor.
After my blood work had been reviewed (all is well) my weight and blood pressure noted (acceptable but not great on both counts) and various pleasantries had been exchanged, I was asked if I’d gotten the vaccine, or planned to do so.
It was slipped into the conversation so casually, the way spies looking for information in the old thriller TV shows or movies did it. Make it seem almost an afterthought; nothing that important.
My response was no and no. And thus began a bit of verbal fencing. My position is and has been, I’m willing to take my chances with a death rate of about 1 percent for people such as me vs. embracing the vast unknown risks of vaccines not subjected to customary periods of study to discern possible side effects.
The fact that the vaccine manufacturers got blanket immunity from lawsuits during this hurried rollout does not inspire confidence.
The arguments about whether the vaccines are, in fact, gene manipulation also is a concern.
Reports of violent reactions to the shots are troubling. Also worrisome is anecdotal evidence. A young and healthy friend of my son found the vaccine worse than the disease – he’s had experience with both.
It is disingenuous when people say the adverse reactions are a very small percentage. Also tiny is the percentage of deaths from COVID-19, but that hasn’t hampered the terror campaign.
The vaccine pushers use combinations of guilt, virtue signaling and general what-can-it-hurt? arguments to make their case.
It was easy for them early in the going. The most gullible and easily panicked sheep rushed to get the jabs. They signed up on waiting lists. I know of at least one frantic individual who drove hundreds of miles each time for her jabs. More correctly, her daughter did the driving.
Neighbors are astonished that neither my wife nor I raced to the telephone or computer to get on the lists.
Apparently these days you don’t need to wait. On the contrary, vaccines sit unused. Mass vaccination centers have closed down for lack of demand. Reports are that generally the 50 percent or so of the population that wanted vaccinated has taken the shots. The other 50 percent isn’t interested at this time.
The usual suspects – fear merchants, most of whom are credentialed with M.D. titles – are appearing regularly on television to promote vaccines and your duty to get them. Not surprisingly, the M.D. experts who will not preach fear don’t seem to get the same air time, at least not with sycophantic nods of approval from the show hosts.
My doctor and I got into a side discussion on abortion. I noted how the eliminators of unborn children cloak their task in terms such as pro choice rather than pro abortion. Just sounds so much more harmless and right, doesn’t it?
Well, on the matter of vaccines, I’m pro choice. I don’t want one, so you can have mine. It is my body, to borrow another line from the infanticide crowd.
I don’t understand the concern among the self-righteous people who have taken the needle. If the vaccine works, you’re safe and it’s me taking the risk by not getting it. If the vaccine doesn’t work, why bother to get it at all?
What about the SCIENCE? is oft-heard from the pro-vaccine folks. What about it? Increasingly, studies, such as a recent one by MIT, show social distancing and reduced capacities do little to prevent spread of the virus and those measures were rammed down our throats as SCIENCE.
The study authors would, however, like to keep you from going to gyms, or church, where your heavy breathing, or singing and talking, might more readily spread the disease.
Of course there is no mention in reports on the study that urge avoiding social justice warrior protests and riots to prevent spread of the virus. Can’t infringe on the right to rape and pillage.
Talk of so-called virus passports or immunity passports to allow vaccinated people to move freely about, and restrict movement of the non-vaccinated, keeps being downplayed by the powers that be. But, rest assured, if enough people don’t willingly take the needle, these measures, or similarly draconian ones, will be implemented to coerce compliance.
And then the battle truly begins.
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