Didn’t I hear of a vaccine being tabled this morning because it was causing inexplicable blood clots that doctors say they need more time to understand?
You can’t know the long term effects of anything before the long term.
Some of the "bad side effects" were feeling faint, shortness of breath and fast pulse - within minutes of getting the dose (not a reaction to the contents of the injection, but more a reaction to getting a shot.) The clotting or not-clotting (depends on the "vaccine") is the big concern, thus far. Although supposedly one mutation - the South African version? - of WuFlu is worse in people who got one of the flavors of shot than in people who didn't get any shot.
It's funny to me that they think the answer is, "If only we showed more TV commercials during NASCAR and country music events." Not, though, "If only we carefully explained why we think this is a good bet in terms an adult could understand."
Though I remember when the Clinton administration was trying to sell Hillary Clinton's healthcare law back in 1993. They sent a spokesperson down to Gainesville, Georgia, to explain it all to the crowd. He received substantial pushback, got flustered, and actually said, "Don't you understand that you'll receive all these benefits and it is all absolutely free?"
The laughter from the crowd basically put an end to his sales pitch.
I don't think there is any evidence that 'white conservatives' are any more likely than 'white leftists', or nonwhite people in general, to have a negative attitude toward the Covid vaccines. Many of the leading anti-vaxxers, going back many years, have been Hollywood types and other 'celebrities', almost all on the Left. Vegans and health-food fanatics are surely well-represented among vaccine opponents.
My concern about side effects from the vaccine was about as big as a mustard seed, while my concern about the effects of the virus was the size of a dinosaur-killing asteroid. I don't understand this controversy at all, but I continue to think people are entitled to make their own decisions about relative risk. The fact remains that most people will not die either from the virus or the vaccine, any more than most people will die from lockdowns or masks. The differences among all these approaches are at the margin. That makes them fair game for policy debates, but they're not all the existential threats they're made out to me, at least from a population-wide perspective.
If incidental bad reactions are as bad as it gets, that would be good- even if the rate is 1000 times the bad reaction from other shots.
ReplyDeleteIt is the unknown unknowns that bother me- Antibody Dependent Enhancement is a real risk, and we won't know for some time.
I am far more worried about the "vaccine" than getting the 'rona.
Some of the "bad side effects" were feeling faint, shortness of breath and fast pulse - within minutes of getting the dose (not a reaction to the contents of the injection, but more a reaction to getting a shot.) The clotting or not-clotting (depends on the "vaccine") is the big concern, thus far. Although supposedly one mutation - the South African version? - of WuFlu is worse in people who got one of the flavors of shot than in people who didn't get any shot.
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It's funny to me that they think the answer is, "If only we showed more TV commercials during NASCAR and country music events." Not, though, "If only we carefully explained why we think this is a good bet in terms an adult could understand."
ReplyDeleteThough I remember when the Clinton administration was trying to sell Hillary Clinton's healthcare law back in 1993. They sent a spokesperson down to Gainesville, Georgia, to explain it all to the crowd. He received substantial pushback, got flustered, and actually said, "Don't you understand that you'll receive all these benefits and it is all absolutely free?"
The laughter from the crowd basically put an end to his sales pitch.
I don't think there is any evidence that 'white conservatives' are any more likely than 'white leftists', or nonwhite people in general, to have a negative attitude toward the Covid vaccines. Many of the leading anti-vaxxers, going back many years, have been Hollywood types and other 'celebrities', almost all on the Left. Vegans and health-food fanatics are surely well-represented among vaccine opponents.
ReplyDeleteMy concern about side effects from the vaccine was about as big as a mustard seed, while my concern about the effects of the virus was the size of a dinosaur-killing asteroid. I don't understand this controversy at all, but I continue to think people are entitled to make their own decisions about relative risk. The fact remains that most people will not die either from the virus or the vaccine, any more than most people will die from lockdowns or masks. The differences among all these approaches are at the margin. That makes them fair game for policy debates, but they're not all the existential threats they're made out to me, at least from a population-wide perspective.
ReplyDeleteI talked about this in 2020 feb and march.
ReplyDeleteIf corona is bionengineered, i would not take the wax because it highly likely it is a binary set. Combined together...