COVID is not serious enough to warrant vaccine mandates

October 16, 2021 By Pandra Selivanov

The saying that desperate times call for desperate measures was never more true than when applied to vaccination. Consider the first vaccine in 1796, when a young boy was inoculated against smallpox. It had been noticed that milkmaids almost never contracted smallpox. Milkmaids frequently caught cowpox, a mild illness related to smallpox. British physician Edward Jenner theorized that infecting someone with cowpox would confer immunity to smallpox............  Smallpox was a very contagious disease that killed many of the people who contracted it.............Louis Pasteur was not even a doctor when he developed a vaccine for rabies.  In our modern world, rabies is a plot point in movies like Old Yeller.  In Pasteur's time, rabid animals were so terrifying that any pet dog was suspect and might be killed out of hand.  Rabies is almost 100 percent fatal. .................

Now consider COVID.  The total population of the world is more than 7 billion people.  The number of people who have died from COVID is 4.9 million.  That's a lot of dead people, but it's less than a fraction of one percent of the world population.  Most people who get COVID don't get very sick.  Some of them don't have any symptoms at all and only find out they've been infected with COVID when they test positive for it or turn out to have antibodies.  The survival rate is estimated at between 97% and 99.75%. ................ It's true that COVID is very contagious, but so is the common cold, and no one ever thought of shutting down the world before to prevent people from catching the sniffles........To Reads More....

Sicko, Southern Border-Style

April 12, 2019 By Brian C. Joondeph

Sicko is one of Michael Moore’s many movies, focusing on the U.S. health care system, costs, the uninsured, and the usual liberal talking points. Despite his many criticisms of U.S. health care, when Moore was sick with pneumonia, he chose hospitalization in a New York City hospital rather than in one of those countries with a supposedly far better health care system, say, Cuba.

He could make a sequel to Sicko, this time focusing on the southern border of the U.S. and the hordes of sick men, women, and children invading America, bringing all sorts of exotic diseases on top of the many other problems they bring, including crime. These diseases are making many Americans sicko.

It’s more than simply lice or scabies, annoying conditions, but hardly a mortal threat to Americans. Instead it’s contagious diseases that we haven’t heard much about in decades or since many of us were afflicted as children. These diseases are making the news, but as predictable as sunrise and sunset, the media and government officials are at a loss to explain the resurgence of these mostly once-eradicated conditions............. Read more