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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  1. kedavis Coolidge
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    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):
    Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean the technology itself is risk-free, with no side effects.

    Right. We all have assess what is the acceptable risk. It’s been over six months since people (Biden) first started receiving the vaccine. What are the reports of delayed negative side effects? Oops — well maybe Biden isn’t a good example to work from . . .

    If it came right down to it, I would not bet any actual money that many of these vaccine cheerleaders actually received the vaccine.

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  2. DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) Coolidge
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    MiMac (View Comment):
    It is more complicated than simply giving the drug to pregnant animals-Embryos are often not susceptible to damage from toxins except during specific vulnerable periods in their development- so unless you expose the developing animal fetus (or human for that matter) at the “correct” time you will not notice any problems. The vulnerable period is often short making detection more difficult.

    exactly proving my point.

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  3. DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) Coolidge
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    Roderic (View Comment):

    Concretevol (View Comment):

    This entire debate is lunacy. Get vaccinated or not, since I have been vaccinated I really don’t give a rat’s a$$ what everyone else does. It affects them and not me so to each his own.

    It affects us all when we get another spike with all the economic and social dislocation that causes.

    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?

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  4. The Reticulator Member
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    DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) (View Comment):

    Roderic (View Comment):

    Concretevol (View Comment):

    This entire debate is lunacy. Get vaccinated or not, since I have been vaccinated I really don’t give a rat’s a$$ what everyone else does. It affects them and not me so to each his own.

    It affects us all when we get another spike with all the economic and social dislocation that causes.

    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. 

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  5. Western Chauvinist Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):
    Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean the technology itself is risk-free, with no side effects.

    Right. We all have assess what is the acceptable risk. It’s been over six months since people (Biden) first started receiving the vaccine. What are the reports of delayed negative side effects? Oops — well maybe Biden isn’t a good example to work from . . .

    If it came right down to it, I would not bet any actual money that many of these vaccine cheerleaders actually received the vaccine.

    Ooo, maybe Biden received a saline shot in that photo! Doesn’t help explain his rapid decline, though.

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  6. kedavis Coolidge
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    @kedavis

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):
    Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean the technology itself is risk-free, with no side effects.

    Right. We all have assess what is the acceptable risk. It’s been over six months since people (Biden) first started receiving the vaccine. What are the reports of delayed negative side effects? Oops — well maybe Biden isn’t a good example to work from . . .

    If it came right down to it, I would not bet any actual money that many of these vaccine cheerleaders actually received the vaccine.

    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.

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  7. Western Chauvinist Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):
    Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean the technology itself is risk-free, with no side effects.

    Right. We all have assess what is the acceptable risk. It’s been over six months since people (Biden) first started receiving the vaccine. What are the reports of delayed negative side effects? Oops — well maybe Biden isn’t a good example to work from . . .

    If it came right down to it, I would not bet any actual money that many of these vaccine cheerleaders actually received the vaccine.

    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.

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  8. Roderic Coolidge
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    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    Roderic (View Comment):

    With sars-cov-2 none of the numerous (!) different strains are any different with regard to immunity. If you are immune to one you are immune to them all. So, in other words, in practical terms there aren’t multiple strains. There’s just the one.

    So, again, in practical terms, we haven’t really seen any mutation in sars-cov-2 at all.

    Is it “natural” immunity to all strains, or is it the mRNA immunotherapy (which triggers the immune system to respond to the spike proteins whatever virus they surround)? Does it work the same in the body if you acquire COVID? In which case, dang! Ain’t technology wonderful?? We can simulate catching COVID without having use either live or attenuated virus! Woot!

    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.  

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  9. Roderic Coolidge
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    DonG (2+2=5. Say it!) (View Comment):

    Roderic (View Comment):

    Concretevol (View Comment):

    This entire debate is lunacy. Get vaccinated or not, since I have been vaccinated I really don’t give a rat’s a$$ what everyone else does. It affects them and not me so to each his own.

    It affects us all when we get another spike with all the economic and social dislocation that causes.

    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?

    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.

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  10. MiMac Thatcher
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    Roderic (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    Roderic (View Comment):

    With sars-cov-2 none of the numerous (!) different strains are any different with regard to immunity. If you are immune to one you are immune to them all. So, in other words, in practical terms there aren’t multiple strains. There’s just the one.

    So, again, in practical terms, we haven’t really seen any mutation in sars-cov-2 at all.

    Is it “natural” immunity to all strains, or is it the mRNA immunotherapy (which triggers the immune system to respond to the spike proteins whatever virus they surround)? Does it work the same in the body if you acquire COVID? In which case, dang! Ain’t technology wonderful?? We can simulate catching COVID without having use either live or attenuated virus! Woot!

    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.

    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.

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  11. EHerring Coolidge
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    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.

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