Like I say I respect others opinions, but seeing and experiencing first hand the very REAL adverse reactions to the vaccinations, I will take my chances. Unless we have a pandemic similar to the bubonic plague from the middle ages, I have no intention to either being locked down, being forced to wear a mask that offers no protection ( note, I am not lumping in N95 masks or their equivalents into this - I know they offer protection against Covid 19, hence their cost ) or my basic civil liberties impinged.
People can think what they want about these vaccines but anyone who is skeptical has the right.
We had presidents and health officials standing up in public giving completely false information with complete matter-of-fact confidence. When we saw this in real time we knew the damage that was being done. It was completely reckless. Now you have millions of people not trusting in health officials or governments when it comes to vaccines.
There were not one or two instances of very grave misleading comments from them but numerous.
Saying "we aren't sure yet" or "some studies suggest this might be.." would have been the best answer instead of trying to use fear and complete disregard for the truth to get what you want. Everyone vaccinated.
When officials came out and demanded kids get vaccinated even though there was clear-cut proof that only 0.3% of the deaths were from kids (and most of that percent were kids battling cancers or other serious diseases already) we knew we were in for a battle. When stats suggest there is no need but officials push it so hard, you are bringing nothing but distrust in yourselves and the entire medical field.
If you go on social media and search these topics, you will see pages littered with tens of thousands of comments where people are saying they will never take a vaccine again. They will never listen to the government, WHO, CDC etc
The amount of damage done could take decades to repair with the public... if ever.
What is my political stance? Well anyone who knows me from the old political debates knows I am clearly conservative. There seems to be a notion where the right is against vaccines and the left is all about them.
Politics to me does not matter. Science, research, trial and error do.
I am a professional in this field who has worked alongside the CDC, WHO, and many other organizations. I study viruses.
I was on the ER and ICU floors reading reports, watching patient treatments, reading patient health records, reading tens of thousands of hours of research and studies, and having meetings with top health officials all over the world for the past 3 years. For about a year straight I slept maybe 4 hours a day during covid. Some not at all.
I saw young and old die from covid. Yes, younger was much rarer but I saw many 30-50-year-olds die or come close and fight for weeks to survive (me saying many does not mean it was common it just means that a hospital clearly sees the worst cases). I helped flip patients over to help them breathe, I talked to wives, parents, brothers, and sisters during these times.
On average, a person under 50, their immune system was able to handle the virus on its own. However, there is a small percentage where for some reason, their immune system could not fight it off. Genetics? Lifestyle? Sometimes. Sometimes not. We had perfectly healthy 30-year-olds get very sick but again were they healthy? From our tests, yes but in reality there could be things we didn't see.
One case in general I clearly remember. A 65-year-old lady with rheumatoid arthritis which is an autoimmune disease, had covid. She was double vaccinated. She did incredibly well. Your usual cold symptoms but she recovered in 3 days. Pretty great results for her. She was on our 'watch closely' list because of her age/disease and slightly overweight.
One week later the same thing. A lady who was 67 with rheumatoid arthritis and was double vaccinated contracted covid, was slightly obese and got extremely ill. She spent well over a week in ICU and we did not think she would make it. She had no other ailments.
So again, was it genetics, did she partake in an unhealthy lifestyle growing up? We asked them both every question under the sun. There was nothing that stood out. The only difference was their blood type. The healthy lady is B- and the one who was very ill is Type A.
B- is pretty rare. So did that have something to do with it? Maybe as we have seen in some studies by us and other people who get most ill are type A or AB
These studies take a lot of data and time.
Watch your videos, read your social media if you want (it can be interesting for sure) but when making a decision about your health read all the medical information you can find from a non-political or pharmaceutical-driven study. Once you do that, cross reference it all. Once you are done that, talk to your doctor. If you are still unsure, get a second opinion if you are truly battling with wanting to get vaccinated or not.
