Last December, my adult daughter became a statistic on a government chart a few days before her 33rd birthday. Just another casualty of the opioid epidemic. Meanwhile the people responsible for creating that epidemic—the oligarchs who run Big Pharma and the politicians and government officials who serve them for personal and family gain—walk away wealthier and no wiser.
Yesterday I downloaded an Ebook RFK, Jr. has available on the CHD website: “A Letter to Liberals”. Just started it, but a good read so far. You might like it also; it’s a free download, so no cost to give it a look.
As to what prompted me to visit the website, the CDC latest change in guidance. Originally, I avoided getting the covid shots due to long distrust of big pharma and the US for profit medicine. My mom was an RN who worked when health care was still affordable, and “non-profit” in many ways. In the end, her health was ruined by medical incompetence.
As a 66 year old working full time, I could have gotten the shot in January. I passed. And kept passing until the delta variant arrived in my area in late May. By late June, we were getting walloped. The hospitals were overwhelmed. Patients were transferred, traveling nurses brought in, paramedic teams brought in. Local ambulances couldn’t keep up. Delta appeared to be nastier than the original variant.
I couldn’t bear the thought of getting sick enough to require care and adding to the HCWs burden. The only preventative available was the shot, so I got the J&J, and a second in the fall.
Now I knew at the time the reason the local health care systems were cracking under the pressure was they had been spreading staff thin to max profits for years. Of course, both claim to be non-profit, so that money gets ploughed into more clinics, buildings, glossy marketing, and I suspect bonuses for upper level management. Still felt I should do what I could to avoid adding to the workers’ burden myself.
I now feel like an absolute idiot who allowed myself to be played. I should have stuck with my initial instinct, but damn I am still pissed at a whole lot of people.
Interestingly, every body in my office, Pfizer vaxxed and boosted caught omicron in the winter. Some have had it twice. So far, I have not had it. I suspect it is pure dumb luck, not the J&J shots. Not a good look for the effectiveness of Pfizer though.
Good luck to all of us. More interesting times are surely headed our way this fall.
(PS--I was emme at JPR, so hello to any of you reading. I hope Nevada Wino is recovering nicely from her broken arm.😊)
I've my own personal reason, tied in to Biden's massive lie in his February 4 speech: "Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy." You can add to that "The United States should not, and will not, engage in “forever wars” that have cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars." It's from Biden's INTERIM NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIC GUIDANCE dated March 2021.
Why does it matter? My wife and daughter are two of the 10 million or so refugees from Ukraine; we married in Ukraine last December and quickly had to spend months working through Biden's "welcome with open arms" paperwork and costs to get them here. Friends are some of the estimated 190,000 killed and wounded in Ukraine, and while their building is still standing in central Ukraine, we don't know how long that will last.
Biden, and Obama/Biden, had a chance to follow through with diplomacy with the Minsk accords from 2014/2015, unanimously ratified by the UN Security Council and agreed to by the US. Instead, Biden as President chose to massively arm one side of a civil war, and impose sanctions on Russia that instead are destroying Europe and have negative impacts on those living in the US.
I know we've had this discussion elsewhere, but Biden is in my mind the worst President in US history, and is now in strong competition for the worst leader in world history. His war of choice is responsible for the destruction of Ukraine physically and economically with unlimited weapons supplies to fight to the last Ukrainian, and is moving inexorably closer to WW III and possibly nuclear war. Biden's choices may destroy the West and the US - he now has his forever war that may cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars to the West.
I just hope it doesn't go nuclear and end up costing billions of lives.
I’m with you,OB.Voting for these creatures would be saying I’m okay with their methods..from primary theft to Russiagate to using theEspionage Act to keep Donald Trump—for whom I have no use either/-from running.Not to mention warmongering and personal corruption.I am not okay with a bit of it and will not support them.That is all.
Yesterday I downloaded an Ebook RFK, Jr. has available on the CHD website: “A Letter to Liberals”. Just started it, but a good read so far. You might like it also; it’s a free download, so no cost to give it a look.
As to what prompted me to visit the website, the CDC latest change in guidance. Originally, I avoided getting the covid shots due to long distrust of big pharma and the US for profit medicine. My mom was an RN who worked when health care was still affordable, and “non-profit” in many ways. In the end, her health was ruined by medical incompetence.
As a 66 year old working full time, I could have gotten the shot in January. I passed. And kept passing until the delta variant arrived in my area in late May. By late June, we were getting walloped. The hospitals were overwhelmed. Patients were transferred, traveling nurses brought in, paramedic teams brought in. Local ambulances couldn’t keep up. Delta appeared to be nastier than the original variant.
I couldn’t bear the thought of getting sick enough to require care and adding to the HCWs burden. The only preventative available was the shot, so I got the J&J, and a second in the fall.
Now I knew at the time the reason the local health care systems were cracking under the pressure was they had been spreading staff thin to max profits for years. Of course, both claim to be non-profit, so that money gets ploughed into more clinics, buildings, glossy marketing, and I suspect bonuses for upper level management. Still felt I should do what I could to avoid adding to the workers’ burden myself.
I now feel like an absolute idiot who allowed myself to be played. I should have stuck with my initial instinct, but damn I am still pissed at a whole lot of people.
Interestingly, every body in my office, Pfizer vaxxed and boosted caught omicron in the winter. Some have had it twice. So far, I have not had it. I suspect it is pure dumb luck, not the J&J shots. Not a good look for the effectiveness of Pfizer though.
Good luck to all of us. More interesting times are surely headed our way this fall.
(PS--I was emme at JPR, so hello to any of you reading. I hope Nevada Wino is recovering nicely from her broken arm.😊)
I've my own personal reason, tied in to Biden's massive lie in his February 4 speech: "Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy." You can add to that "The United States should not, and will not, engage in “forever wars” that have cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars." It's from Biden's INTERIM NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIC GUIDANCE dated March 2021.
Why does it matter? My wife and daughter are two of the 10 million or so refugees from Ukraine; we married in Ukraine last December and quickly had to spend months working through Biden's "welcome with open arms" paperwork and costs to get them here. Friends are some of the estimated 190,000 killed and wounded in Ukraine, and while their building is still standing in central Ukraine, we don't know how long that will last.
Biden, and Obama/Biden, had a chance to follow through with diplomacy with the Minsk accords from 2014/2015, unanimously ratified by the UN Security Council and agreed to by the US. Instead, Biden as President chose to massively arm one side of a civil war, and impose sanctions on Russia that instead are destroying Europe and have negative impacts on those living in the US.
I know we've had this discussion elsewhere, but Biden is in my mind the worst President in US history, and is now in strong competition for the worst leader in world history. His war of choice is responsible for the destruction of Ukraine physically and economically with unlimited weapons supplies to fight to the last Ukrainian, and is moving inexorably closer to WW III and possibly nuclear war. Biden's choices may destroy the West and the US - he now has his forever war that may cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars to the West.
I just hope it doesn't go nuclear and end up costing billions of lives.
I’m with you,OB.Voting for these creatures would be saying I’m okay with their methods..from primary theft to Russiagate to using theEspionage Act to keep Donald Trump—for whom I have no use either/-from running.Not to mention warmongering and personal corruption.I am not okay with a bit of it and will not support them.That is all.