Contributed Photo: Pictured is the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Column By Mike Bibb
I guess a few folks are reading my commentary in the Gila Herald. Recently, I’ve had a couple ask me why I’m opposed to the COVID vaccines.
Actually, I’m not. I just believe they shouldn’t be the only approach in trying to resolve the pandemic. More importantly, they should not be mandatory.
There ought to be additional medicines and procedures available to choose from. Not everyone believes a “one size fits all” vaccine is the most appropriate way to go. Certainly not the only path to pursue.
If we are to “follow the science,” as we’ve been reminded innumerable times, then logic, knowledge, discussion, research, and experimentation are usually an intricate part of the procedure.
As I understand it, viruses are continually mutating and changing. This would seem to indicate commercially and privately produced vaccines must also be regularly modified to keep pace. Otherwise, the medicines are outdated practically before they’re made.
Consequently, to steadfastly insist two or three similar drugs – injected into the arm – is the most suitable medical method to maintain after two years into the disease, doesn’t seem very scientific to me.
Especially, when many of our noted “experts” refute the possibility of other proven treatments.
When the World Health Organization, National Institute of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control, their spokespersons, and the president of the United States all tout the same line, then I begin to suspect we’re not getting the full, untarnished story.
It is becoming obvious the three experimental vaccines haven’t totally lived up to their billing. Even after being fully vaxxed and boosted, people are still becoming ill and contagious, capable of passing the virus.
Something we were originally told couldn’t happen.
So, what’s the government’s answer to the problem? More shots.
Yet, there is little discussion of other remedies and therapies, and the mainstream media certainly doesn’t pay much attention to it. Deaths with comorbidities – the overwhelming cause of reported COVID fatalities – are often ignored in order to make the numbers appear more gloomy. Deaths by COVID alone are far fewer, representing an entirely separate statistic.
Realistically, there’s probably a money-making factor involved, but that’s a whole different story.
Instead, opposing opinions on COVID treatments are often portrayed as ignorant and out of touch. How could an ordinary person’s views on COVID and the vaccines remotely compare with the accumulated information and insight of our nation’s most prestigious medical and pharmaceutical institutions?
Impossible, the big brains have concluded. John and Jane Doe aren’t that smart. If they were, they’d all have stock in Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna. Just ask Dr. Anthony Fauci how he managed to accumulate over 10 million dollars on a public servant’s salary?
Maybe he’s made some super-profitable investments. Being the highest-paid government employee helps, too.
In a country of 330 million people, common sense would indicate a single medical procedure is not going to work for everyone, any more than a single allergy pill is appropriate for all hay fever sufferers.
Which accounts for the extensive variety of available allergy medications. Sometimes a person may have to try two, three, or more before they find one that’s proper for them.
Unfortunately, that option is not offered by the government. More alarming, compulsory vaccinations are being mandated in some locations if a person wishes to keep their job, remain in business, or order a bowl of chili.
All premised upon the assumption a jab in the arm is going to make everyone in the room safe from each other. At least, President Joe seems to think so.
Of course, that’s just plain foolishness, regardless of the assurances of health officials and politicians. The scenario becomes more ridiculous when we’re sternly cautioned to mask up before going out in public. As if a paper or piece of cloth strapped to our face is, somehow, going to protect us from a microscopic organism that can easily pass through most fabrics.
If a person can breathe air through a common inexpensive or store-provided blue mask, then he/she can also inhale just about everything in the air passing through the mask. Including COVID germs.
Many people have reported smelling smoke from California wildfires several hundred miles away, although they were masked at the time.
Nevertheless, I have no objection to a person masking or lining up to be vaccinated. It’s their choice. If they sincerely believe it is the expedient thing to do, then go for it. Put on as many face masks as they want and get as many shots as they please if it makes them feel better mentally and emotionally.
Just don’t expect everyone to share the same sentiments. That’s their choice. Above all, don’t force them into it. There’s no quicker way to turn off a person to a particular point of view than tell them they have to do something they are reluctant or don’t want to do.
We’re talking about an event that could impact their health. It should be their decision how to deal with it; not necessarily based upon the opinions of unknown scientists, government agents, and for-profit medical establishments.
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
