I realized a long time ago that saying the same basic thing over and over leads, over time, to useful simplifications; and the ability to convey complex ideas and realities in easily comprehensible ways and language is the mark of understanding. This makes repetition in some respects the father of clarity.
Thus:
One of the hallmarks of meaningful freedom is the right to choose the level of risk one is willing to accept.
Logically, IF these experimental injections reduce risk of infection and serious complication from this disease, then the people who have received them are at less risk from everyone else.
But as Thomas Sowell pointed out relentlessly over his long and productive and brilliant career (one which I think most likely continues as a talented photographer), LIFE INVOLVES TRADE-OFFS.
We are told the risk of dying from COVID-19 goes down if we accept one of the four purported “vaccines” on the market. This is a consideration.
[Actually, I will note I am actually not sure how many “vaccines” are in use around the world. We tend to assume, rhetorically, that they are equal, but this is a silly idea, and one contradicted by more or less the entire history of medical science. I know of Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and AstraZeneca, but I think the Russians have one or more, the Chinese have one or more, and I don’t know who else is participating, so the total number could be up to a dozen or more.]
But we also have more DATA concerning the illness itself than we POSSIBLY could for the vaccines, and there is a non-zero and in my view non-trivial–and really inestimable at this point–risk that the VACCINES, themselves, might present more risk than the disease.
We have been studying infectious illnesses for all of human history, and studying them with increasing intelligence for several centuries now.
By and large, our immune systems work fine. And regardless of what happens, the disease, when it is gone, is gone. There is every reason in the world to assume that relative immunity is conferred by infection.
Thus, there is a trade-off, in risk calculations–and it is our own health we are talking about, so this should be a personal decision–between the risk of contracting the illness and suffering long term effects; and accepting the unproven, and unapproved treatment.
NEITHER APPROACH IS WITHOUT RISK.
Yes, our “experts”–some of them, the ones that the Tech Giants are allowing to speak–say, without the possibility of acceptable amounts of evidence, that these treatments are “safe”.
That they are claiming this is itself prima facie evidence of corruption. They have no evidential basis for this claim, other than that they ASSUME it to be true.
But the FDA has processes in place, which more or less exist to prevent another Thalydomide sort of incident. That problem mainly existed overseas, because in my understanding the FDA never approved that medicine here.
They protected us, in other words, which it is in their charter to do.
Until the FDA has done a full two years worth of trials–and this whole thing amounts to a global trial of an unproven medicine–no can speak from an EVIDENTIAL basis when saying these things are safe. We just don’t know.
And as one doctor pointed out, the HONEST risk calculus, done by medical professionals, depends entirely on accurate numbers. Specifically, do widespread injections reduce the overall risk of premature death? If everyone gets jabbed, and then jabbed again, will we reduce deaths clustered around this illness, or increase them? If a million people–in some arbitrary group–were going to die without the vaccines, can we say for sure that number will be reduced to, say, 750,000?
WE HAVE NO BASIS FOR CONFIDENCE IN ANY PREDICTIONS AT THIS POINT. We have guesses, issued in bad faith by dishonest people acting politically.
As I have said over and over and over, I think I KNOW how to reduce my risk of serious illness from COVID. I take Vitamin D, Zinc, Magnesium, Vitamin C and Quercetin daily. I also take Melatonin nightly to help me sleep better, and in general I get plenty of sleep. I use the sauna 5x a week or so. My health is excellent. I exercise, meditate, and use a variety of tools to help calm me down.
How do I alleviate my risk from medicine using new technology, about which no truly sound data exists? I assume lowering my overall levels of systemic inflammation must help, so good quality fish oil is likely good. But beyond that, what can I do?
And if you look at how these things work, they program some of our cells to look like intruders. Can anyone say for sure exactly how long this outcome lasts? What if it lasts indefinitely? What if they ARE teaching our body to permanently react to a disease which WILL NOT GO AWAY?
This is the root concern of those who talk about autoimmune disorders. After all, OUR OWN CELLS are being used for this process. What if our immune system starts reacting not just to the one that look like spike proteins, but to ALL OF THEM which were used to create the fake spike proteins? Could that not be fatal, after a few years? Some people are claiming this.
This whole time is crazy. I am having thoughtful, in my view well written and reasonable, pieces pulled off the Gannett website.
It is easy enough to think it’s a global conspiracy, and at the top maybe it is. But most of it, as deployed daily around the world, consists in people indoctrinated to think that if we are not all marching in lockstep, that if we are not all following the Identified Experts–rather than engaging in the messiness of honest scientific and democratic debate–that PEOPLE WILL DIE.
Here is the thing: we all die no matter what. And large masses of people have died of many things in the last year. As I have said often, 3 million Americans die of something every year. If 500,000 died of COVID-19, that is bad, but it would–if it were an honest number, which I don’t think it is–still be only a sixth of all the deaths.
We know the average age of death is the average age of death from all causes. We know the death rate, even including the old, is a fraction of 1 percent.
This whole thing is a collective, and in my view Collectivist, hallucination. Clinical schizophrenia. It is delusional madness.
The basics are SO SIMPLE. But you can’t speak them, or far too many people cover their ears and yell at you.