The topic is a plea to get the Covid shot.
I had Covid, so why do I need the shot? That makes no sense to me and I have been teaching about viruses and vaccines for many years. I am no expert, I am a HS science teacher, so when I heard what Fauci was saying and suggesting I wanted to understand. I wanted to be able to explain to the students and I wanted to understand for myself. I have no problem believing that there are "exceptions" to the rule, this was presented as one, so tell me more. However, any questions that were asked were ridiculed, scorned, censored, and characterized as an attack on Fauci which he equated to an attack on science.
Now that I knew was idiotic. I also teach students that the history of science involves many, many mistakes, lots of questions and ultimately enough evidence to convince us of a new paradigm. They were not giving us any evidence and instead were rebuking anyone who asked questions. That is not science.
The first problem I had was that this plea to get the shot is based on the desire to get to herd immunity. However, that is simply a lie. Corona viruses mutate rapidly, this virus is so widespread with so many millions who are infected that new variants are a guarantee. If you have a vaccine that knocks out 99% of the variants you are simply favoring the 1% which will soon become the dominant variant and that is what we see. There appeared to be immunity conferred when people first got the shot, by June that was waning and as of today there seems to be no benefit at all between vaccinated and unvaccinated with some of these variants.
Second they push this 80% or 70% vaccination as a goal that will get us to herd immunity. Once again this was simply a lie. The US represents 5% of the world's population, 70% of the US represents 3.5% of the world's population. Unless your goal is 80% of the world you aren't going to get to "herd immunity". Second, you can't talk about "herd immunity" in terms of percentages. How many people does it take to keep a virus like this churning along? 100 million is a huge population, more than enough to allow a virus to survive for generations. If you have a herd of 1,000 animals then sure, 80% probably gets you to "herd immunity" but if it is 7.5 billion then even 95% will not be enough for herd immunity. Third, how gullible are people? We were told that this virus jumped from bats to people. Don't you realize if that is true then this virus can jump from people to bats? Are they going to vaccinate all the bats?
Common sense dictates that any thought that we will get to herd immunity is for idiots. We won't and everyone involved in this science knew it from day 1. That is why we don't make vaccines for corona viruses (the common cold).
But no one can deny this "urgent" push for mandating vaccines and bitter ugly rhetoric. Obviously there is a very important reason to give everyone the shot and just as obviously they are not telling us what it is and if we ask about it we are branded as evil. Good has become evil and evil has become good.
