Re; Covid and conspiracy theories

Even with a background in medical settings I cannot claim expertise about the subject of Covid, the effectiveness of vaccines, the advice of medical experts, etc.

All I can say is I lost my best friend as some of you remember well over a year ago. Please read these various and sundry posts with a heavy dose of discernment, question everything you read, and mostly use your own common sense. Being safe and following current best medical practice when you recognize it is probably best.

The life you save just might be your own. Stay happy. Stay well.

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bookerdana · M

Its the only disease that was weaponized,politically...yet when vaccinations for common childhood diseases drop below a certain percentage mumps measles even polio have reappeared

Grateful4you · M

@bookerdana I remember as a kid, vaccinations in elementary school were routine and without a lot of questioning. Most younger folks have never seen the horror of polio especially the children who suffered 24/7 the pain and physical restraint.

bookerdana · M

@Grateful4you Exactly but the parents bear the burden in this

Grateful4you · M

@bookerdana I imagine in many cases. Remember the "Thalidomide babies?" I' ve seen them and the deformities were horrible. I can imagine the guilt mothers went through.

bookerdana · M

@Grateful4you There was no warning on that drug.....but all the science shows the need for childhood vaccination for aeons

Grateful4you · M

@bookerdana Exactly right. I'm just glad I had a responsible dad, and mom to a lessor degree.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@bookerdana A very good point, and I have not seen or thought of any convincing explanation for the rise of such nasty, strident "political" campaigns against any attempt to control any other disease. Much of that reaction was probably though simple fear and common inability to understand both [i]hazard[/i] and [i]risk[/i] (not synonymous), but I can't help wondering if there are deeper motives in favour of this new-to-us disease.

Even though vaccines, and the concept of "lock-downs" and quarantines are hardly new. The latter word is from the Italian attempt to resist the spread of the Black Death some centuries ago; by doing just as we know the term nowadays.

(The Black Death was Bubonic Plague - the disease itself is now rare and although it can kill very rapidly, it is curable if caught in time; but it still attacks people occasionally. Originally it was transmitted by fleas and lice carried on rats and people themselves; but modern standards of health and hygiene have largely dealt with that.)

As for me: yes, vaccinated against polio, tetanus, diptheria and tubercolosis; in later life against influenza (annually) and now Covid-19. I can remember the terrifying prospect of polio, leading in serious cases to permanent paralysis.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@bookerdana AIDS was used to make sex something else, and we had just gotten it back again....