For whatever reason, the government wants everyone to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Despite numbers that show many Americans have natural immunity to the coronavirus because they have already had it (I am one of those Americans. I had the virus in early November. As of two weeks ago, I still had the antibodies. If I test negative for the antibodies in the future, I might consider the vaccine, but for now, I won’t.), the government is pushing the vaccine.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Townhall<\/a> posted an article on some of the twisted logic being used to coerce Americans into getting the vaccine.<\/p>\n The article notes:<\/p>\n There are no more experts. They know nothing. So, don\u2019t listen to them. Okay, maybe that\u2019s not actually fair\u2014but the real experts are being ignored by the liberal media for a simple reason: they want the COVID panic to continue. They want more deaths to occur. They want a spike. They want to keep the nation locked down. It\u2019s partially out of spite. Blue states are still under Nazi-esque lockdown rules\u2014and their cases are still bad. Not like last year, but Michigan is seeing a massive spike, whereas Texas who nixed their mask mandate over five weeks ago and reopened fully has seen no spikes\u2014none. Florida has also been a state that has managed its COVID crisis better than the media gave it credit for, painting Gov. Ron DeSantis as the grim reaper. It turns out the entire media establishment ate it on that one\u2014no shock. The good news is that even though Democratic states cannot manage COVID, there is no fourth wave. A spike in one state\u2014Michigan, does not make a wave no matter what the CDC says. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he doesn\u2019t think there\u2019s going to be a fourth wave. And alas, here is the circus. The CDC saying there\u2019s \u201cimpending doom,\u201d which was voiced around spring break to Fauci saying, \u2018nah, that ain\u2019t happening.<\/a>\u2019 \u00a0The messaging on COVID protocols has been a mess; the ones with vaccines has been even worse. An MIT study pretty much gutted or cast immense doubt on the effectiveness and purpose of air filtration systems, indoor capacity caps, and even mask wearing. Folks think they\u2019re protected wearing a mask. Nope. It\u2019s an airborne virus. If you\u2019re inside with someone exposed, that mask isn\u2019t doing much, whether it be six or sixty feet apart. It\u2019s all a mess, and now we have this garbage about not reaching herd immunity (via NYT<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n The New York Times reported:<\/p>\n Early in the pandemic, when vaccines for the coronavirus were still just a glimmer on the horizon, the term \u201cherd immunity\u201d came to signify the endgame: the point when enough Americans would be protected from the virus so we could be rid of the pathogen and reclaim our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, more than half of adults in the United States have been inoculated with at least one dose of a vaccine. But daily vaccination rates are slipping, and there is widespread consensus among scientists and public health experts that the herd immunity threshold is not attainable \u2014 at least not in the foreseeable future, and perhaps not ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n Instead, they are coming to the conclusion that rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in the United States for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n How much smaller is uncertain and depends in part on how much of the nation, and the world, becomes vaccinated and how the coronavirus evolves. It is already clear, however, that the virus is changing too quickly, new variants are spreading too easily and vaccination is proceeding too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, there is no allowance for natural immunity in this conclusion. It is estimated that at least one-third of Americans have had the coronavirus and are immune to it. When you add that to the forty-five percent who have been vaccinated you get approximately seventy-eight percent. That is herd immunity. Just a note, herd immunity does not mean that we eliminate the virus completely–it simply means that we eliminate the epidemic. That is a distinction that I don’t think is being currently made. We could lock ourselves in our houses forever, and there might still be a virus bug waiting for us somewhere when we ventured outside. Living in a bubble is not practical. We need to follow the example of Florida–protect the vulnerable, vaccinate the vulnerable who choose to be vaccinated, and let those less vulnerable go on with their lives. Unfortunately (as we are currently seeing), government does not like to give up control under any circumstances.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For whatever reason, the government wants everyone to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Despite numbers that show many Americans have natural immunity to the coronavirus because they have already had it (I am one of those Americans. I had the virus … Continue reading