10-16-2021, 03:35 PM
Just get the inoculation. The risk of losing all freedom while sedated and hooked up to a ventilator, where one has a great chance of never surviving and even if surviving has a high chance of being messed up to the extent of becoming incarcerated in a nursing facility is just not worth it. It won't matter where you are on a ventilator.
I had a great uncle who was put on a ventilator following some medical treatment. He walked into the hospital but never walked after that. I think of a ventilator with horror after that from just over 20 years ago.
The chance of dying if one contracts COVID-19 is higher than that of getting killed from a rattlesnake bite.A rattlesnake usually gives a fair warning of its danger (the rattle), as it prefers to scare people off (it is in more danger of being trampled by our feet which compare in pressure to the hooves of cattle than we are in danger of being bitten) to biting. People infected with COVID-19 are nearly as dangerous to people not inoculated as a rattlesnake but give no warning.
I did get unpleasant, delayed side-effects from the vaccine -- chest pains, shortness of breath, diarrhea, loss of sense of smell -- all symptoms of COVID-19. I figured that such made clear to me that
(1) I had done a good job avoiding COVID-19
(2) I would be in big trouble, if not dead, had I gotten or would I eventually get COVID-19, and
(3) that I was far safer in facing any existing strains of COVID-19.
I had a great uncle who was put on a ventilator following some medical treatment. He walked into the hospital but never walked after that. I think of a ventilator with horror after that from just over 20 years ago.
The chance of dying if one contracts COVID-19 is higher than that of getting killed from a rattlesnake bite.A rattlesnake usually gives a fair warning of its danger (the rattle), as it prefers to scare people off (it is in more danger of being trampled by our feet which compare in pressure to the hooves of cattle than we are in danger of being bitten) to biting. People infected with COVID-19 are nearly as dangerous to people not inoculated as a rattlesnake but give no warning.
I did get unpleasant, delayed side-effects from the vaccine -- chest pains, shortness of breath, diarrhea, loss of sense of smell -- all symptoms of COVID-19. I figured that such made clear to me that
(1) I had done a good job avoiding COVID-19
(2) I would be in big trouble, if not dead, had I gotten or would I eventually get COVID-19, and
(3) that I was far safer in facing any existing strains of COVID-19.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.