Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
In this community, I wrote several posts about vaccination. In those posts, I tried to stress a) everything one decides to take into their body, represents a risk for their body, b) risk varies from person to person, so you should make your decision after consulting with physician familiar with your medical history, and c) you should weight the risk from vaccination against risk of disease.
A great part of my professional, every day life requires thinking about patient safety. At the end of every decision I make, whether about results, tests, or experiments related to the vaccine batch release, there is always patient safety: will my decision have an impact on the patient?
Let me be clear; yes, I heard the horror stories about biotech industry. Yes, without doubt, a lot of biotech baggage comes from historically true and tragic events, and I cannot and will not claim everyone out there is willing to learn on those mistakes. However, what I can tell you how pleasently surprised I was when I began to work in industry. Why? Indeed, safety is the top priority. Then efficacy. Moreover, the current regulations are so tight and costly that even people with, perhaps, questionable moral values understand that only safe and efficacious drug/vaccine is the profitable drug/vaccine.
Yet, no matter how much we try, there is no honest scientist nor doctor who can nor will guarantee you absolute, 100% safety. There are too many variables, known and unknown.
This is why it pains me when people talk about vaccination as if it is the latest trend. No, it is not - or better said - it should not be. Indeed, vaccination against various diseases has done so much good, but it still comes with the risk, and the bad, and the ugly - and we need to talk about it. About all of it.
Scientists and medical professionals need to be able talk about all of it with the patient, so patient can make fully informed decision - as it is their decision, just as consequences are theirs. And the gentleman in the video below gets it; while experiencing unimaginable, personal tragedy, he understands that his risk and his late daughter's risk required very different approach and considerations. And everyone offered vaccination should be aware of it. What is your risk of disease? What are risks of vaccination for you?
No pep talk. No guilt trips. No empty rhetoric. Please always ask, consider and weight all risks relevant to your - and only yours - decision.
I know opponents of vaccination may use story below to "prove their point". I've already witnessed various "fans" of vaccination where spewing statistics of "how rarely" event, such as below, occurs. All while mentioning, causally, "no direct evidence" phrase.
So, I will be clear again - as I've mentioned it before in this community, and medical examiner in the video agrees - it is almost impossible to prove someone died from vaccination. My point is - and it has always been - that vaccination is not simplistic "yes" or "no", "for" or "against" issue. As most things in life, the vaccinations has good, bad and ugly sides, and nothing should be hidden from the patient making a decision.
Nothing.
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
