some controversy this fine morning....

 The U.S. government has a vaccine safety website, called VAERS.  It states there that from January 1st 2021 to April 22 2021, 3,362 people in the United States have died from the Covid vaccine.  This is the number of people who have died, and more have died since then, bringing the number probably close to 4,000.  Four THOUSAND people.  This doesn't even account for the strokes, heart attacks(900), tinnitus...(I know, that's a strange side effect!)(8,000 hospitalized).   This number, this 3,362, which is probably undercounted, is more deaths than all other vaccine deaths combined in the last FIFTEEN YEARS.  It is definitely the single deadliest mass vaccination in modern history (Tucker Carlson).  

So if a person had Covid already, or is young and healthy, those things are not being put into consideration in this extreme push to get "needles into arms"!  There is no case by case health history examination here, no, it's EVERYONE GET ONE.  And if you dare speak out against it, whoa!  You must be a right-winger, Trump lover, grandma killer.  

This tweet about summed it up.  I am NOT an anti-vaxxer.  My kids have gone for their well check-ups, and have all their immunizations.  I am not anti-science, nor anti-medicine.  I am just a person who is deeply suspicious of any entity which seriously shuts down any conversations counter to the agenda.  

To me, vaccinations shouldn't be political.  I know the whole thing is a huge-0 money maker for big Pharma, but even that aside, no one should be pushed, coerced, shamed, forced, to be injected with a spike protein which doesn't have an end point.  It is not clear what the future holds for those who have had this mRNA put into their cells.  My hope is they'll all be absolutely fine.  Seven of my adult kids have been vaccinated now, so of course, with all of my heart, I hope and pray this is a good thing.

My point is, what if you have doubts?  Are you a horrible person, should you be canceled?  Are you not allowed to question things, in the United States of America?

What if a person is very high risk, my own sister, for example, several co-morbidities.  She gets part one of vaccine, then gets a relatively mild case of Covid-19 (thank God! it was mild!), should she be forced or coerced to get the second part?  Should she be banned from travel, admittance to events, shunned, because in her particular case, one shot did the job?  

What about Paul, who had a nice, also relatively mild case?  He still can barely detect any smells, can't taste but a slight bit, and seems a bit off his game, although I don't say that to him...I'm thankful he's recovered, but why on earth would he put his body through the vaccine, when he's built immunity to it?  Those saying we can get it twice, well, is that science?  (I've actually read that it's the same case, lying dormant, and sometimes rearing up again, perhaps after a vaccine even...)

And the argument that getting the jab to protect others, but at the same time, keep social distancing and wearing the mask because:  you can still get it and spread it, whether you're vaccinated or not.  This makes NO sense.  

In any case, there is pressure out there, pressure to just shut up and get it, advertising to make people who are on the fence look utterly stupid.  

(Look up Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, and his wife, Heather Heying, both have PHDs, and are very interesting)

In any case, maybe I think too much about things, maybe I'm too skeptical, I don't know.  But don't steam roll me for wanting to see the whole picture.  

In other news, yesterday afternoon I went out and about with Jonathan, he has the grand project of putting a new clutch into his old Volkswagon.  He ordered the clutch, but had to go here and there to get the right tools, and brake fluid, and whatever else.  I went just to spend a bit of time with him, we got a coffee from the little coffee hut in the small city, and had a nice time fixing the world's problems.  He has high hopes for his car, and in one of the auto shops, the cashier told him he had a friend with the same car, with 400,000 miles on it and still going, so Jon was smiling about that.  He'll learn from it though, and of course I hope hope hope it all works out and it's not just pouring money down the drain, he WILL learn from it.  And it's good clean fun, right?  Idle hands being the devil's tools, and all of that.  

Today, I am going to the library all by myself.  Sonja is going to get her second vaccine...she is entering nursing school in the fall, and her advisor slayed it out:  it's typical that if one misses more than two classes, one is out, it's very strict.  Add in the weekly student Covid testing, and if someone in your pod tests positive, then you will have to quarantine until you test negative, and if that means missing classes, the same rules still apply, you cannot miss more than two.  There are no exceptions added into the program to account for Covid, but there is this:  if you are vaccinated, you will not have to quarantine if someone in your pod tests positive.  It makes sense, and it also rather forces the students to take that jab.

  I love my kids with all of my heart.  I know that God loves them too.  We live in this time, and I'm quite sure His hand is on us, if we are seeking His kingdom first in our days...so there is comfort in that.  

Am I clear that I am not terrified of the vaccine?  I am not against it, more like against being forced?  I just want more details, comparisons of risks:  it isn't, nor should it be,ONE SIZE FITS ALL.  

Anyway...off I go, out and about all by my lonesome....any good book suggestions before I go?