Big news this past week that the Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine has been pulled out of circulation (“out of an abundance of caution”) because six cases of blood clots have been reported out of the 7 million inoculations given thus far.
OMG!
Gee, all the political hoopla about vaccinations has really hyped up “concerns” among the citizenry
I don’t know about anyone else, but the benefits of a vaccine (like…not dying from the coronavirus) would certainly seem to me to outweigh the risk (6 divided by 7 million = one thousandth of one percent!) of getting a blood clot, which normally is not fatal. My wife Charlie has had a bunch of them.
Americans take drugs (a lot of them!) every day that have known side effects, some very serious.
If you watch much TV, particularly the major networks, it is hard to avoid the advertisements placed by the pharmaceutical companies. They are everywhere, particularly during the commercial breaks of the news shows. Sometimes, there are two drug ads during a single commercial break.
Each ad touts the alleged beneficial attributes of the drug, and then there follows an audio and written narration of potential side effects…which can be numerous and significant including death. “Talk to your doctor”, the ad advises. By the time the lengthy side-effect legal announcement is completed, I’ve usually forgotten what the wonder drug was designed to cure.
It appears, from the statistics being generated about the 100 million inoculations already accomplished in the United States, that the risk of serious side effects from the various Covid-19 vaccines, is markedly less than the risk of taking…an aspirin for a headache.
Can’t we…please…remove politics from this friggin pandemic? Idiots are out there amongst us inventing reasons not to get vaccinated…while people are dying. We are now entering into a FOURTH WAVE of infection, for God’s sake, a large swaths of the public are behaving like we’ve already beaten the foe.
There is a whole “second dose reaction” hoopla being played out in our Nation by alarmists who anticipate a reaction, then attribute any medical condition that afflicts them after the second inoculation…to be caused by the booster shot. That might include a headache, a short-term rash, an upset stomach, a mild fever, and so forth. Normal things that we deal with on an everyday or periodic basis…are now being confidently described as “side effects from the vaccine”.
Nothing horrible, or earth-shaking, from a medical perspective, but more urban “truth” to keep the pot of skepticism boiling…that doctors don’t know what they’re talking about.
Americans need to grow up, trust science, stop pretending that they know more about this pandemic than the experts, do their part, and get this damned plague out of our lives ASAP. This pestilence isn’t done with us yet, although lots of folks are acting like it is.
Historians are going to look back to our time and wonder… what in the Hell was wrong with them?!
