Meanwhile, Hunter Biden…

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

People will keep getting it and some will die, as with flu and pneumonia. (I just got my vaxxes for those yesterday, though I know neither gives perfect protection and I’m not sure which pneumo vaxx I got.)

If that’s true, it follows that just about everyone will get Covid eventually unless they are naturally immune or their vaxx does the trick (no guarantee).

So with all the lockdowns, masking etc. we have spread out the rate of transmission and reduced the likelihood of medical resources being overwhelmed.

But at what cost? And will we ever revisit the choices made in 2020?

I respect the experience you and your husband had and am very very glad you both survived.

But of course I’m not “forgetting that greater than 98% of people survived this virus from the beginning without hospitalization and that continues to be the case.” I’m well aware of the statistics and have written many times (even at the start) about that, but those statistics aren’t relevant to what we’re discussing here.

I’m written posts about this with links, and I’m not going to go back and write about it in detail here. But suffice to say that the relevant statistics are to compare the recent percentages of the total vaccinated population hospitalized or dead from COVID who were fully vaccinated and the recent percentages of the total unvaccinated population hospitalized or dead from COVID. The chances of a serious or deadly case in the unvaccinated is much greater. That of course is not the case for people who have actually had COVID, such as yourself and your husband. They are protected most strongly and in my opinion do not need to be vaccinated.

In the research I’ve read, the statistics for people who are partly vaccinated are usually separated out as partly vaccinated and are in an intermediate category. And by “research” I don’t ordinarily mean “newspaper articles or blog posts,” which seem to get it wrong time and again if one looks at the actual research.

Lastly, of course the hospitalization and death statistics are complicated by the tendency in many states to list the death of anyone with COVID as dying from COVID even though they didn’t really die from COVID. But at the moment that is an unknown number and will probably remain so.

And of course I support anyone’s decision to be vaccinated or remain unvaccinated, for whatever reason.

See also this interesting piece on environmentalist ritualism as a means of coping with anxiety and perceived disorder:

https://reason.com/2014/08/22/environmentalism-and-the-fear-of-disorde/

Quite related to the excessive panics about Covid, I think.

The Vatican was the first institution to impose the vaccine mandate. As a devout Catholic I disavow this Pope as a false prophet. Gave him the benefit of the doubt for years, but as of this year I’ve determined to use the ancient scriptures as my guide and anything or anyone that contradicts what even a child can determine from this book, I judge to be outside the wisdom of God. This man recently gave the right hand of fellowship to Nancy Pelosi. On the basis of Ezekiel 33, as her leader, he is now equally bound by the iniquity of her vial acts regarding protection of life in the womb. Prayers for them both, as I want to obey the command to pray for my enemies.

I concur with you ANanyMouse. The idea that there are less serious cases and deaths among the vaccinated depends on forgetting that greater than 98% of people survived this virus from the beginning without hospitalization and that continues to be the case. I had it and never took so much as an aspirin to recover. My husband suffered the cytokine storm because he was sent home without so much as fluids, oxygen or steroids when that would have been SOP for a respiratory infection from times past. Sadly, not treating people is still going on as I know of 2 cases personally of recent date. Add to all this the fact that a person with 1 shot or in under 14 days after a 2nd shot is designated “unvaccinated” and you see the continuation of the narrative as disclosed by the governing authorities, none of whom I trust for any information whatsoever. Why would I? Our friend’s daughter is an RN and due to requirement to keep her job she got 1 shot, but having immediately suffered an attack, the result of a lifelong inflammatory condition, which hadn’t happened in 4 straight years until the day of the shot, she applied for exemption and has it for now. A fellow nurse at Kaiser, a very big fan of the vaccine (designated as such, according to the new definition) told her 2 weeks ago that the ICU was full, but all the patients were stroke victims. No 2+2=4 for him.