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Please Get Vaccinated
We are in the middle of another COVID spike in Texas, in much of the rest of the country and the world. In Texas new infections are up by 300 to 400%.
Fear-mongering comes in the news in the form of Greek letters these days, but the fear-mongering has a kernel of truth to it. Unvaccinated people are at increased risk of getting infected; as an adult, if you get infected you have a 10% chance of getting severe disease. Leaving aside the chance of death, if you get severe disease you have a 30% chance of having long-term problems, like dementia, which in popular accounts is described as “brain fog”. And the brain fog for those who get it is not going away.
So, according to the Wall Street Journal, if you’re not vaccinated your chance of getting long-term problems or dying from COVID is 25 times greater than for those who are vaccinated. Yes, the vaccines are incredibly effective and safe, better than most vaccines we’ve had before. And they are still effective even against the Delta variant of COVID. Pray to God that no resistant strains of the virus ever emerge, but the longer this pandemic drags on the more likely it is that resistant strains will emerge. And this pandemic is going to keep going as long as people don’t get immunity, either through catching the disease or through vaccination.
Here in Podunkville, Texas, you can walk into any Big Box Drug Store and get jabbed, usually for free. There’s a huge amount of evidence now that the vaccines are safe long-term. If that’s not good enough for you then every single one of the medications and vaccines that we’ve ever used are not good enough for you.
Get vaccinated, my people.
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If it came right down to it, I would not bet any actual money that many of these vaccine cheerleaders actually received the vaccine.
exactly proving my point.
The butterfly effect is the pretense of all totalitarians. Your use of vowels in your statement affects me, you should stop using vowels. Or, do you think “affects” is the wrong standard?
I approve of your distinction between effect and affect.
Ooo, maybe Biden received a saline shot in that photo! Doesn’t help explain his rapid decline, though.
He’s been declining for years/decades. And it’s not uncommon to decline more rapidly at the end.
Yeah, I was messin’ around.
Natural immunity is less potent than vaccine immunity if you go by the lab titers. In practice there doesn’t seem to be a lot of difference.
The wonder of mRNA is that it’s manufactured using a standard process that is the same for all types of mRNA. You just punch in the code for the sequence you want and out pops a unique new mRNA for the next microbe you wish to obliterate.
To point out the effects on the larger community is not necessarily to call for coercive laws, but people should be made aware of the consequences of their choices.
An additional benefit to mRNA vaccine technology is you do not have to have commercial quantities of live virus in large tanks lying around- where mishaps can occur- because like lab leaks of dangerous viruses such things can occur. For the manufacture of many traditional vaccines you need large quantities of viruses brewing in huge tanks. There have been leaks from such facilities- these are “factories”- not “secure labs” like Wuhan( laugh away!). There have been instances where the attenuated virus wasn’t attenuated enough or was contaminated by other viruses- so the traditional vaccine caused problems (so much for those who only want a “traditional” vaccine). With mRNA you do not need any virus at all to manufacture the vaccine-all you need is the coding sequence of the mRNA.
We have gone from a government we trusted giving the polio vaccine to one we distrust trying to control our lives. I got the vaccine – but no amount of praise for it will convince those already harmed by other government responses.