| I can count the number of times I've been sick in the past 10 years on one hand. I've only had a few vaccines during that time. I take supplements that benefit my immune system, call it a day, and that seems to have done well enough. Oddly enough, the people in my life who are vocal about getting vaccines and booster shots on a regular basis all get sick much more frequently than I do. It's the same situation with my girlfriend. Both of us rarely get sick and we are apparently more confident in our immune systems than this relatively vocal group of people. I don't think our lifestyle choice makes us deserving of the "anti-vaxxers" slur and the animosity that comes with it. It's not like I'm on social media posting evil "anti-vaxxer" content. It was actually a 2014 broadcast on WPFW 89.3 that made me aware of facts that many seem to be ignorantl of or actively suppress: - The similarities between 19th/20th century recorded symptoms of polio sickness and similar symptoms of lead/arsenic poisoning. - Lead/arsenic pesticides were used on crops back then, lead contaminated many things ingested by people, and people did in fact get paralyzed as a result of these things. - Polio was declared an infectious disease on a very flawed experiment where spinal fluid from a paralyzed cadaver was injected into a monkey that subsequently became paralyzed. - The resulting vaccines from this research resulted in more paralysis and deaths. - Many scientists believed toxins were the cause of polio, but their voices were suppressed by the US government when national vaccine trials began in the 1950s. - The government-approved polio vaccines caused paralysis and deaths. One would be correct in saying that the foundations for government-run vaccine programs are shaky at best. The fact that 100 years later, researchers are still trying to nail down the polio virus, might make one wonder that the elusiveness of a solution is a product of a made-up problem. Yes, polio viruses have been "identified", but no one can say for sure how many of of those who were paralyzed before were the result of poisoning vs. a random virus. Then you have Bill Gates experimenting on India's people with his polio vaccine investments - is an equal amount being invested to research toxins as the cause of polio-like symptoms there too? Anyways, please excuse me for waiting a some months to get my COVID vaccine. I suppose it's been enough time to watch the antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) risk play out. Next week I'm due for my 2nd Moderna shot. My girlfriend already has hers due to a questionable job requirement. Don't fault me for feeling uneasy about it, seeing how in Japan last month, Moderna doses were found to be contaminated. |
Having a nutritious (and/or well-supplemented) diet and healthy lifestyle are important. No one doubts that. But medical records and studies have shown that that only gets you so far w/r/t to things like the Delta Variant. The only way to tell if your immune system is up to that particular task is to see how it responds to being infected. Lots of people have made the mistake of overestimating just how much their immune response is under their control. The subset whose immune systems proved unequal to the task are the ones in emergency rooms.
Given that Salk gave away the Polio vaccine for free, you have to ask what the financial incentive would be to gin up a made up virus.