I agree with you in most of what you are saying. I don’t think anyone should be forced to take the vaccine. I think it is a choice. I personally don’t care if you or anyone else is vaccinated. The mortality is very low, but it isn’t zero. If you assume a mortality of 0.3% (3/1000) and you let the virus spread with abandonment (no masks, immunizations, social distancing…), that would mean roughly 1 million Americans would die from the virus every time someone contracted it. The issues with COVID is how easily it spreads and how little long-term immunity we see after infection. COVID is several times more communicable than influenza. The delta variant appears to be even more communicable and there’s an epsilon variant that might be even worse. Less than 5% of infected individuals have any immunity past 3 months. Almost none develop long-term immunity. So, conceivably if we didn’t have any restrictions or vaccinations, everyone could contract the virus at least twice annually and some more than 3 times. Even if you left the mortality at 0.3% (there is a suggestion that the mortality is higher with subsequent infections), that means at least 2 million dead every year in America alone. Now, you could say that most of the mortality is concentrated in the elderly, so it’s mostly just grandma/grandpa that dies off and maybe the mortality rate would drop in the younger population, but that isn’t the full story. Had a patient 2 weeks ago that lost her grandson (30 yo without co-morbid conditions) the prior week to COVID. Started having fever and GI complaints on Thursday and was dead on Saturday. I was healthy (training for a century ride) when I got COVID and ended up in hospital. So, it isn’t just grandma/grandpa that is being killed off.Vaccinations have been happening now for some 7 months or so.
When polio, small pox, even insulin therapies were given there were immediate and irrefutable results.
In the case of insulin Lazarus was literally raised. A roomful of kids in diabetic coma being watched to their deaths became instantly animated.
The risks were real in these instances....death, life in a lung, death or scarring. The outcomes of being afflicted were significantly worse and it took the perfectly healthy.
These were real threats we met without panic.
CV 19 vaccinated people are still getting Covid.
Though a real disease this shit has been so politicized and overblown.
I think everyone is in agreement that in the general population the death rate is less than 1% yet we cage match over arguing tenths to either promote or deny its lethality. Media likes to report the percentages just of "at risk" groups to promote the beliefs of lethality.
Facts are I face a "less than 1%" lethality every time I turn the ignition key in my car. Significantly higher when I rode my motorcycle. Shit as a reloader each trigger pull is a lottery. If you shoot a Serbu you should be uninsurable.
Yet with this "minimal risk" we have destroyed voting integrity, destroyed small business and moved to change the basic values of our Constitutional Republic.
Perhaps my biggest hang up is I have some unelected beareaucrat telling me to "get over" my Liberty concerns.
Shame on anyone in the med field not speaking out for "reasonable and sane" conversation regards this.
Granted the powers that be would probably destroy their voices but allowing those other voices to spew their shit with conflicting verbal and visual messages is causing death.
A political leader tells the People they can't have a July 4 family gathering because it's too dangerous yet shows up at a BLM rally with no one wearing masks.
A governor goes to a large dinner party maskless while everyone else is required to get Uber to deliver takeout as they are mandated shut ins.
A governor won't let you buy gardening seeds while meanwhile she flies off for party girls weekend away.
Citizens are restricted in movement and mandated in action yet thousands come over the border, not tested, free to move and actually provided money from the restricted to enjoy freedoms they are denied.
You couldn't buy a turkey over ten pounds in my AO last November because anything bigger meant gatherings bigger than the permitted size.
Sorry med people We see the truth.
Tyrants want to Tyrant and Pharma wants to rape the People.
It's a perfect alliance of evil and you are playing their useful idiot role.
Nurses please post more pictures of your tired eyes and the sores on your face from mask wearing......I don't give a fuck.
As for the hypocrisy and politicization of the virus, I couldn’t agree more.
On the topic of insulin, it was a MUCH longer discovery time. Initially described in 1886 by Langerhans and called pancreatin. Banting and Best started research in 1921 and though they made a HUGE mistake in their study, they discovered the role of insulin that summer. Banting and Macleod were awarded the Noble prize a few years later. Fascinating story. Especially if you understand the mistake they made and the politics of research.
Polio and smallpox had much longer vaccine development. Yes, those diseases have higher mortality than COVID, but that mortality also limits its spread.