I trust my doctors.
I look it this way, in one year the government came up with the Covid vaccine to save millions of life. We shouldn't expect perfection. Some people are going to get side effects, but many more will be saved. Kind of like the TV commercials where the drugs they sell has a multitude of side effects. The government also didn't want people to panic. Maybe mask wearing was kind of like a security blanket for the masses. When I look back on Covid, I was really scared. Who wasn't?
Not to belabor this; yes, anyone with preexisting conditions/older people should have been vaccinated.
I think Fauci and others knew that just about everyone was going to get COVID. The masks and social distancing were bullcrap. And they knew that all along. People were told to put on masks to give them a security blanket and avoid panic. In retrospect, it was likely better to get COVID and develop some natural immunity while you were young and healthy than to dig a bunker and jump in to put it off. I do think some people developed a mental issue over the topic. They are still wearing masks to this day. Among other things, it became a symbol of resistance to Trump. The whole thing was politicized and bungled. Instead of shutting down the entire country - which I'm convinced was done for political purposes to influence the election - the emphasis should have been placed on protecting the elderly and unhealthy. Those folks should have been isolated. Everyone else should have gone about their business, got the virus (as they eventually did) and moved on. It was inevitable that many people were going to die. Nothing anyone could have done would have changed that. Closing businesses and schools just compounded the harm.
Jason I would never deny anyone's right to choose to have the Covid jab, particularly someone like yourself and with your health concerns.
Hi Doug
We do have the advantage of hindsight but folks like Fauci were paid millions to spend their entire career preparing for such an event. They were either completely clueless or intentionally promoted pain for political purposes. Once it became clear early on that healthy people would only have minor illness, the resources should have been shifted to protecting those most at risk. Instead idiots like Cuomo actually sent COVID patients into nursing homes. No matter what they did large numbers of people were going to die. That was just the reality of the situation. It was a novel virus that spread quickly. No politician, however, was going to admit that and risk panic but that made it pointless in my opinion to close down the country. In terms of the vaccines, I don't have any problem with them. I don't think they should have been forced on folks, though. Everyone should make their own decision based on their personal health history and situation. I got the COVID vaccine and booster in the first year but haven't recently. I do get the flu vaccine every year because I got the flu several years in a row and it was miserable. Far worse than COVID in my case.
Doesn't suit the msm and lefts narrative of Orange man bad, Islam good.
That mayor of Minneapolis sounds like one tough hombre, I wouldn't want to mess with him.....................what an clown, writing checks with his mouth that he can't cash.
My Dad was a police officer for 37 years and yes, he taught me to respect law enforcement, yes sir, no sir, move along.
Protestors show up almost immediately with professionally printed signs and flags. Many have gas masks. These are not local neighborhoods protesting but financially funded organizations.
We have an increasing number of people who have been radicalized by social media and mass media propaganda. These are what I refer to as the "crazies." Then there are the mostly white, college educated liberals who take up certain causes like defending illegal immigrants, releasing criminals, allowing homeless people to stay on the streets. This makes them feel virtuous in the echo chambers that they live in. They can do all these things because they have no impact on their own lives. They live in protected communities with no homeless or crime etc. It's only other people who suffer. These are the types who run places like Minnesota. That's not to say that there are not an unfortunately sizable number of law enforcement types who are in the wrong profession and are overzealous. I think in this case that the officer could have stepped aside and let the vehicle pass. I don't think she was intentionally trying to hit him. With that said, firing his gun is not a crime under the law. He had reasonable cause to believe that his life could have been in danger. The whole situation is tragic. Not in least part because any number of people including the victim could have exercised a small amount of common sense to have avoided it.
"Oh hey everybody, look at me, I'm a virtuous person because I care about total strangers whos path I will never have to cross, hooray for me, please show me the flowers I deserve."
To Doug's point about radicalized people; check out this video, specifically at about the three minute mark.
