I am putting this in politics instead of healthcare... because it is about the political side of all this.
I am as conservative as they come. Leftism is a cancer among us in many ways.
One, however, is not the vaccine.
Get vaccinated. We need to cut this thing down before a truly bad variant comes out. Delta is not it. It is not nearly as bad as bad as the original, but it can become worse as it will, inevitably morph itself.
As i have stated here a number of times my son is a Respiratory Specialist, and my daughter is a Respiratory Therapist. Both at major hospitals.
At the hospital my daughter works at, there are 44 Covid patients. 6 are in ICU. 2 are likely to die.
Wanna know the demographics?
All but two are minorities.
Only one is vaccinated.
Let that sink in. It is the same all over. Right now Covid is a sickness, primarily for the unvaccinated. Yes you can spout off some anecdotal situations that show some vaccinated people getting sick and even dying. But folks, the numbers are simply what the numbers are. And the numbers are the sick enough to be hospitalized - are overwhelmingly unvaccinated.
Getting vaccinated is not "giving in". It doesn't make you less conservative. It is not a "win" for the other side.
It is Goddamn common sense in order to stop a very possible bad ass variant from developing that will screw us over worse than 2020.
Okey let me give you a serious response.
I’m not against anyone getting the vaccine. If you want it, get it. I think it’s even wise for elderly to get it.
However, here is my take on forcing the entire country to get it. This is an experimental mRNA type vaccine, of which there are NO long term studies in humans done. Do you think it is wise for an entire nation to be inoculated with an experimental vaccine which we have no idea what the long term repercussions will be?
What if it turns out in a few years whose who are vaccinated have their immune systems compromised? Or if they have heart issues? Or blood clot issues? What happens if a big percentage of them die from these issues? How will our country survive if 90% of the population is inoculated with the same vaccine that ends up killing most of them? It may be a “conspiracy theory” to think of these things, but these theories certainly cannot be debunked by scientific studies because none have been done.
I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a huge gamble, to gamble the entire future of this nation on one experimental vaccine. So pardon me if I think it’s irresponsible to push it onto 90%+ of the population. I think it would be smarter to have different types of vaccines, and even a portion of unvaccinated. Personally I was holding out for the J&J vaccine, but then the early reports were even worse than the mRNA ones and it was pulled, so I scratched that one off the list.
I am not “anti-vax”. Trust me, I would take a safe and effective vaccine against that CCP/Fauci spawned poison from Wuhan. I don’t want to catch that shit. But at this point I would rather get the virus and build up natural immunity to the future variants. Scientific studies so far have proven that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines.
I’m not “anti-science”. I read scientific papers on the virus and the vaccines. I watch videos about them, I try to educate myself in every way on the subject. Whenever I talk to my relatives about it, they are all clueless on the actual science, and they are all Vaxxed. Science is about doubting. Science is questioning. Science is about observation and testing. That’s all we are doing, is asking questions. What are the long term effects? No one has an answer. So I will wait until the science shows us the answers, then I will get vaccinated.
