I have recently had a lengthy email exchange with a professor, whom I had thought an insightful and knowledgeable scholar. He wrote me to tell me I was wrong about requiring vaccines for children. To my great surprise, it turns out he is an anti-vaxxer conspiracy advocate, much like Robert Kennedy Jr.. The entire time our exchange went on I could not get a childhood image out of my mind. When I was 9 years old a close friend of the same age, Murr Ottinger, who lived down the street from me whose father, like mine, was also a doctor contracted polio. This was before the polio vaccine had been invented when polio was a major health threat. I will never forget going to visit him the last time I saw him. His bed had been taken out of his room, and he lay in an iron lung with only his head sticking out and lying on a pillow. He lay there looking up about 18 inches into a mirror slanted so he could see me. I doubt many Americans today even know what an iron lung is. It was a metal tube about six feet long and three feet wide with a glass window built into the tube side so nurses, doctors, and his parents could look in and see his body. It had a bellows on one end and its purpose was to pump air in and out to help Murr breathe. The iron lung created a vacuum inside the cylinder, which was called negative pressure. This negative pressure rhythmically sucked his chest open, forcing air into his lungs. When the pressure returned to normal, his lungs recoiled naturally, which helped him to exhale. Looking at my friend with whom just weeks earlier I had run in games and hiked with was a horrible image I have never forgotten. I never saw him again because he was moved to some kind of long term care facility. Then, first Albert Sabin, and next Jonas Salk created vaccines and today polio in the U.S. has essentially disappeared. The same is true of mumps, measles, small pox, and a host of other diseases. All because of vaccines.
nce a week, early in the morning, community health worker Kiden Josephine Francis Laja mounts her bicycle and pedals as far as 10 miles away from her small village in South Sudan. Some weeks Laja is doing outreach, spending her day educating a community about which vaccines she can provide and what diseases they prevent. “It’s my responsibility to tell the mothers to bring the children for vaccination,” she says. She answers their questions and lets them know she’ll be back, usually the following week, to vaccinate their children. Late in the evening she mounts her bike and heads home.
When Laja returns with the vaccines, kept in a cooler with ice packs, she will spend the day immunizing anywhere from a few to 200 children against a range of diseases: polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis B, influenza, bacterial meningitis, tuberculosis and, more recently, COVID. Most people in high-income countries haven’t seen these diseases in decades, but the people of South Sudan know them well. Many have seen family and friends die from them.
Albus Eddie
on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 6:58 am
Americans love science. What they hate is the commercialization of science, with hidden for profit motives, being shoved down their throat by un-elected bureaucrats. What they hate is “Science Advisors” telling elected officials to mandate public health restrictions when the data doesn’t support it. Again, legislators practicing medicine without a license.
Vaccines have a long history of success in this country; however, the public health establishment overplayed its hand with COVID. The mandating of a genetic therapeutic, ( which is what the so called COVID “vaccines” were ) which were not effective , and for which we don’t have reasonable safety data combined with lock downs have burned all of the public health institutions political capital. In the process it made millions of dollars for Modern execs and Ffizer execs, while employing a strategy that guarantees new COVID variants. Remember, these execs weren’t going to share with third world countries, and unless we were prepared to close the borders, new cases were bound to arise with the influx of new people. With the mandated shots, you have to admit, it was an excellent scam. But the American people had enough.
In addition, changing the definition of vaccines to allow these genetic therapeutics immunity from lawsuits ( a typical post-modern play) while forcing millions to take them, combined with the shifting goal posts of Fauci (along with the little white lies) proved too much for the American public. Being told by the bureaucrats that you can go to the liquor store but ya can’t go to church was over the top. History will show that these COVID lock downs were one of the most foolish things the elites could have done. Indeed, the election results are proof of it.
Playfulpanthress
on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for letting us all know you’re an idiot. Viruses, change. They adapt. The COVID vaccine works. We lost over a MILLION people due to people like you.
Did you prefer to take horse dose parasite paste too?? I didn’t even know what Ivermectin WAS before morons sucked it down instead of following reasonable mandates and getting the vaccine. You were selfish and hateful.
No one likes corporations profiting off of suffering, but I don’t see any complaints about any other sector. Are you as angry at insurance companies that deny treatment? Do you care that gas prices are high, not because of Biden, but because corporations are greedy?
Did you take the vaccine? Have you gotten COVID?
I took the vaccine and subsequent injections. I am lucky and never got COVID. I work in surgery. I was there when hospitals got hit. We had to wear 3m respirators, like the kind used when painting.
Did you fear catching the disease? We STILL don’t know the long term effects. Have you ever heard someone die of COVID caused respiratory failure. Have you seen it? I have. It isn’t pleasant.
People like you sneer at the vaccine and beat your chest like you’re too healthy to get it. Then run to the hospital when you do. Demanding care that wouldn’t be necessary if your head wasn’t permanentlu lodged up your rear.
People died that didn’t need to. If only you were smart enough to understand that.
Albus Eddie
on Monday, November 18, 2024 at 5:57 am
The so called “vaccine” was only partly effective and for a very limited period of time. It did not deliver what was promised. Not even close. It was a massive experimentation upon the population of which we do not know the end result.
My objection is not to actual vaccines. My objection is the marketing of a genetic therapeutic as a vaccine, and then forcing others to take it.
I applaud you for your willingness to engage in the experiment. I don’t want to see it imposed upon the population as a whole without adequate testing. You may be surprised when all of the data finally comes in. When the rates of infection and death are compared from other locations such as Sweden and New Zealand which took a much different approach. I am open to looking at the data. I am not open to coercion.
I thought our very literate friend made a reasonable argument regarding the vaccination campaign yet you blame him and people like him for millions of deaths. Seems to me the idiot is not in the direction you are pointing. What research backs up your accusations?
As a small example my girl friend has gotten maybe six shots of the mRNA vaccine and I got one of the J&J monkey vax early on, nothing after. I had a mild case six months after that, recently she brought home the virus and I got it, both of us had a mild case that passed within about a week plus. So what does that prove? One unvaxxed and the other vaxxed as recommended, both got the virus??
There is legitimate research by credentialed scientists that questions the efficacy and safety of mass mRNA vaccination. I not an anti-vaxxer as it is clear from historical data that some formulas have been very effective and relatively safe.
Not that it matters but I agree with everything he said.
Americans love science. What they hate is the commercialization of science, with hidden for profit motives, being shoved down their throat by un-elected bureaucrats. What they hate is “Science Advisors” telling elected officials to mandate public health restrictions when the data doesn’t support it. Again, legislators practicing medicine without a license.
Vaccines have a long history of success in this country; however, the public health establishment overplayed its hand with COVID. The mandating of a genetic therapeutic, ( which is what the so called COVID “vaccines” were ) which were not effective , and for which we don’t have reasonable safety data combined with lock downs have burned all of the public health institutions political capital. In the process it made millions of dollars for Modern execs and Ffizer execs, while employing a strategy that guarantees new COVID variants. Remember, these execs weren’t going to share with third world countries, and unless we were prepared to close the borders, new cases were bound to arise with the influx of new people. With the mandated shots, you have to admit, it was an excellent scam. But the American people had enough.
In addition, changing the definition of vaccines to allow these genetic therapeutics immunity from lawsuits ( a typical post-modern play) while forcing millions to take them, combined with the shifting goal posts of Fauci (along with the little white lies) proved too much for the American public. Being told by the bureaucrats that you can go to the liquor store but ya can’t go to church was over the top. History will show that these COVID lock downs were one of the most foolish things the elites could have done. Indeed, the election results are proof of it.
Thanks for letting us all know you’re an idiot. Viruses, change. They adapt. The COVID vaccine works. We lost over a MILLION people due to people like you.
Did you prefer to take horse dose parasite paste too?? I didn’t even know what Ivermectin WAS before morons sucked it down instead of following reasonable mandates and getting the vaccine. You were selfish and hateful.
No one likes corporations profiting off of suffering, but I don’t see any complaints about any other sector. Are you as angry at insurance companies that deny treatment? Do you care that gas prices are high, not because of Biden, but because corporations are greedy?
Did you take the vaccine? Have you gotten COVID?
I took the vaccine and subsequent injections. I am lucky and never got COVID. I work in surgery. I was there when hospitals got hit. We had to wear 3m respirators, like the kind used when painting.
Did you fear catching the disease? We STILL don’t know the long term effects. Have you ever heard someone die of COVID caused respiratory failure. Have you seen it? I have. It isn’t pleasant.
People like you sneer at the vaccine and beat your chest like you’re too healthy to get it. Then run to the hospital when you do. Demanding care that wouldn’t be necessary if your head wasn’t permanentlu lodged up your rear.
People died that didn’t need to. If only you were smart enough to understand that.
The so called “vaccine” was only partly effective and for a very limited period of time. It did not deliver what was promised. Not even close. It was a massive experimentation upon the population of which we do not know the end result.
My objection is not to actual vaccines. My objection is the marketing of a genetic therapeutic as a vaccine, and then forcing others to take it.
I applaud you for your willingness to engage in the experiment. I don’t want to see it imposed upon the population as a whole without adequate testing. You may be surprised when all of the data finally comes in. When the rates of infection and death are compared from other locations such as Sweden and New Zealand which took a much different approach. I am open to looking at the data. I am not open to coercion.
I thought our very literate friend made a reasonable argument regarding the vaccination campaign yet you blame him and people like him for millions of deaths. Seems to me the idiot is not in the direction you are pointing. What research backs up your accusations?
As a small example my girl friend has gotten maybe six shots of the mRNA vaccine and I got one of the J&J monkey vax early on, nothing after. I had a mild case six months after that, recently she brought home the virus and I got it, both of us had a mild case that passed within about a week plus. So what does that prove? One unvaxxed and the other vaxxed as recommended, both got the virus??
There is legitimate research by credentialed scientists that questions the efficacy and safety of mass mRNA vaccination. I not an anti-vaxxer as it is clear from historical data that some formulas have been very effective and relatively safe.
Not that it matters but I agree with everything he said.