What’s really behind vaccine refusal

News stories claim that many have not yet been vaccinated for SARS-CoV2 because 1) they can’t get an appointment or 2) Fox News is telling them not to.  Wrong on both counts.  Many are not getting vaccinated because these vaccines are still an experimental product until they are fully licensed, they know that their chances of getting COVID are low, the vaccines will likely not fully prevent one from transmitting the virus, and for some, they already had COVID.  But one of the biggest reasons is also that Japanese data shows that the lipid nanoparticles and spike protein are making it into parts of the body far from the injection site instead of staying put.  Yes, I know the study was a high dosage in rodents and yes, I know it is a small amount.  But it’s enough to cause inflammation of lymph nodes in some women, observed during mammography.  What’s the effect?  We don’t know, because not enough time has passed.  Some reproductive effects don’t show up for years.  So thank you, but I’ll wait for a licensed inactivated intact viral particle vaccine for COVID, if I ever take one.  And I haven’t watched Fox News in years.

Rebrand every decade, at least

I started this blog in 2010 after my daughter was born. My idea was to summarize a few important news stories not getting enough attention.  Now it is 2021 and there are plenty of news aggregator sites that do that.  But as I listen to podcasts and read some of those news stories, I often think, “It’s a shame this person doesn’t have at least one conservative friend so that they would be aware of more opposing viewpoints.”  Especially in cities like Seattle and San Francisco, there either are too few conservatives to speak up, or they’re too afraid to speak up for fear of getting run out of town.  So if you need to hear the viewpoint of One Conservative Friend (patent pending) that isn’t a ridiculous caricature, you’ve come to the right place.