Let me start by saying I don’t give a rat’s ass if you are for or against the vaccine. In my opinion, your body, your life, your choice. Done, end of story.

The issue I am faced with, as many of you are, is how can I make an educated decision if I can’t trust the information being provided? Let me give you an example. Over the past week I have seen and heard multiple TV and radio commercials promoting vaccination. In each of those ads the same message was being delivered. Why should you get vaccinated? Because it protects me and my family? Not sure that’s a true statement, are you?

Yes, it absolutely (High %) will protect me from becoming seriouslly ill. In what way does it protect my family? That is where I am confused. From what I understand there is currently not enough data to support that claim. Why would that be presented as fact to the public? It may turn out to be true, it may not. We simple will not know for quite some time, Ask the multiple New York Yankees that were fully vaccinated and contracted COVID. Why then did they have to quarratine? If they were vaccinated their loved ones had nothing to fear, right?See where my confusion comes from?

The other part of this that really confuses me is this. If you naturally contracted COVID why would you still need to get vaccinated? Don’t the vaccines replicate what your immune system did when you had the virus originally? Basically, educating your immune system on how to react in the future to the virus. You’re telling me a man-made vaccine can do a better job than your natural immune system? Someone please explain the benefits of that one to me. I am all ears. More info on this topic here.

Then we get to how the vaccines actually work. You can find all the details on the yalemedicine.org website. I don’t know about you, but allowing my geneic code to be altered by inserting a piece of code is a little scary. Having done some computer programming and added new code that appeared to work as intended but actually breaking something else is always a possibility. Just throwing that out there.

Last but not least. How is ok for a business or a school to mandate vaccination if we really don’t know the actual pros and cons at the moment. Why is this ok to mandate a vaccination to attend a college? Here’s my question that i think college students and their parents should be asking. My child had COVID. They were naturally vaccinated, correct? Why do they a need a shot if there is no evidence that it protects anyone other than themselves?

Please keep your stats to yourself at the moment. At best, they are guesstimations based on reported data. Let me repeat that, reported data. We have no information from those asymtomatic peope pre or post vaccination because they never got sick and unless they were a professional athlete never got tested. I will not take a deep dive into this but my point is that there is no way we have accurate numbers. No one’s fault, it’s just an impossible task.

That brings us right back to the question at hand. The answer, it should be up to each individual unless you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that getting vaccinated protects the masses AND any long term side effect is less than X %. Are those facts even attainable? If not, then tell it like it is instead of misleading advertisements promoting unverified statements. That’s all I’m asking. Sort of feel like we are being politely bullied into vaccination when it shold be an individual decision and more importantly no one else’s business.