Sorry for the late comment, but I needed time to cogitate. While I agree with your basic premise that the "experts" don't know everything, and in some cases may even have a hidden agenda for passing along misinformation, I don't agree with some of the details.
I get influenza and covid vaccines every year. I have a pretty strong constitution, so I'm not that afraid of getting sick, but I'm the primary caretaker for my 88 year old father-in-law and want to expose him to as few illnesses as humanly possible. Do I worry that the US government might be using me as a Guinea pig? Of course I do, but I really don't want to be the one who ends up accidentally causing my fil's death, so there we are...
I agree that "climate emergency" may be overstating things, but I do believe that we have a climate PROBLEM, and that human activity is at least partially causing it: We're burning everything in sight, cutting down forests and destroying other ecosystems at breakneck speed, and consuming WAY too much, in every sense of the word. I agree that climate change is natural and inevitable, but we do seem to be speeding things up. I don't think we're all going to die, but things will definitely be different and we'll need to adapt - I suspect some of us will be unhappy with these adaptations. I'm very sad for the many species that are unable to adapt, like the polar bear - though there are confirmed instances of polar and grizzly bears interbreeding and producing viable, fertile hybrid offspring.
Our use of pesticides and herbicides, along with habitat destruction, are killing off lots of other species, including my favorite butterfly, the monarch... 😥
I think the biggest threat to human existence is human nature: The fact that so many of us are so greedy, so intolerant, and so warlike does not bode well. But even then, I'm optimistic enough to think that though we might get bombed back into the stone age, some plants and critters - and maybe even some humans - might survive. As you mentioned in one of your Katrina books, I believe it won't be the end of life, but certainly the end of life as we know it...
You are right about climate stuff. My basic point is that it's nothing to do with CO2. It's all the other evil stuff which evil corporations do. These evil corps have pushed the CO2 narrative in part to misdirect people from the evil they do. When I got into environmentalism in the 80s we never talked about CO2, because we knew it wasn't a problem. It was only after 1992 I would say that the entire activist movement (and 'Green' parties) got hijacked by the CO2 agenda. We used to care about genuine issues like deforestation (to name but one - others are available). By focussing everyone's attention on CO2 they are misdirecting people from the genuine issues.
As for these vaccines - you don't need to take them and you will not be passing anything on to your FIL. The immune system doesn't work like that. If you get infected with X, then you will develop an immunity to X. You having an 'immunity' will have zero difference on passing it on to someone else. This is particularly the case for a coronavirus, because there is a 10-day period during which various aspects of the genome prevent your immune system from responding, by suppressing/evading your interferon response. This is how you can pass on diseases without having any symptoms.
Flu is a seasonal thing. Ironically there's no such thing as flu. It is a series of different viruses each of which cause 'respiratory symptoms'. Which is why they do not write 'flu' on the death certificate but 'pneumonia' which is the effect of the final infection which kills old people (like my grandmother - it didn't matter what she was infected with, at 96 years old it was simply a case of 'the next infection').
So each flu is different. That means if you get 'vaccinated' against this year's version, it has zero effect on next year. So if you are going to pass it on to your nearest, you are going to, regardless of last year's jab. Furthermore, either your FIL will get it, or they won't. It has nothing to do with you. Your immune system has zero influence on someone else's. If you get infected with a cold which your immune system already knows how to deal with, you are still infected and you can still pass it on. It's just that your own body will deal with it so you don't get really sick ('sick' = symptoms = immune system dealing with it). But during the first few days, before your immune system has dealt with it, you can still pass it on. But if you are in the same area, then logically it's in the same area as you. In which case, your nearest will get it too. My point is that too many people mistake 'symptoms' for 'infection'. Most people are 'infected' by something at any random time you care to mention. Most of the time they don't get 'symptoms' because the body deals with it. But they can still pass it on.
Finally - with regards to 'vaccines' - it's not the vaccine that is necessarily the issue, it's the 'adjuvant'. The stuff that they say is supposed to 'trigger' your immune system. This is how they rely on people's ignorance. The adaptive immune system does not need a trigger. Any alien/foreign substance will be noticed and dealt with (crude example - male sperm). This is why prior to the mid-80s when they didn't put these adjuvants into vaccines, hardly anyone got any problems. Since then, however, like with MMR, injecting mercury adjuvants into children, the incidence of serious chronic damage has increased.
Trust me - as someone who has been translating cutting edge medical science stuff for the last 25 years - you getting 'vaccinated' will have zero effect on what happens to your FIL. Just give him a beautiful time in your natural environment, feed him your lovely stuff, and at some point, he will pass on peacefully to the next life. As we all will.
Damn it. I had most of a long comment down and Substack ate it when I popped over to Google to check on the spelling of a word. Let's see how well I can replicate it from memory...
About CO2: I'm aware that there are much bigger problems out there. My response is to plant more trees, though I know my efforts are puny compared to the bad stuff going on in the rest of the world, and certainly won't help the endangered species in the shrinking rainforests. But it's something I can do. I'm hoping that it will make a difference if enough of us do what we're able (and try to avoid doing things that make matters worse). I've heard of carbon credits, but my more-practical-than-me husband says this is a bullshit way of making money from guilt, so we don't do that.
There is so much "information" floating around out there about vaccines, that it's hard to know what to think. I live in a house divided: My husband refuses the vaccine. My fil gets it because the doctor advises him to do so. I get it because of the possibly propagandist stuff I've read, plus as moral support to my fil (he has a major needle phobia!). We've only had one experience with covid so far (knock on wood), back in late '21: I tested positive, but only experienced very minor symptoms for a couple of days, pretty much like a cold. My unvaccinated hubby was grounded for almost a week. Interestingly enough, my fil never showed any symptoms at all (his doctor refused to test him, saying that if he'd tested positive, he would have to prescribe paxlovid because of his advanced age and frail condition, which apparently has pretty nasty side effects). My fil has rheumatoid arthritis, so was on hydroxychloroquine (the word that lost me my first commenting attempt) at the time, but I don't know if that did the trick or not - as my scientific husband is fond of saying, one data point doesn't prove a theory. It doesn't really matter at this point anyway - if my wankerous felon-in-chief has anything to say about it, there might not be another set of vaccines available... which of course makes me think I SHOULD get vaccinated - I will admit, that's pigheaded reasoning, but I tend to be stubborn at times.
I'm also fully aware that getting a flu vaccine is like playing Russian roulette, that they kind of lay bets on which three or four strains will be the most prevalent and throw those into the mix.
At any rate, I agree that the most important way to keep my elderly fil healthy is to keep him happy and well nourished. If he's full of healthy food, his body will be stronger, and better equipped to fight infections. If the food tastes good as well, that will keep him happier, giving him more reason to live. And making sure that his environment is calm and pleasant will help keep his heart running properly. The rest of it - bathing, dressing, dealing with his meds, chauffeuring him to doctor appointments, etc. - keeps him in good general health. And having an important job to do helps to keep me on an even keel as well!
I love your stubbornness Jeanine. I'm very similar. It's definitely the healthy food and *love* that matter.
It's interesting about you and your husband. I was quite determined that both of my uncles (similar age to your daddy, one now over 90, the other will be 90 this year) should get whatever alleged vaxes were going - for peace of mind. Funnily enough my oldest unk once fully vaxed caught it at an outpatients' appt. He was stuffed into Intensive Care and didn't like that at all. One fully vaxed cousin caught it from him and had a mild sniffle. Another fully vaxed cousin caught it and had it really badly (2 weeks just in bed). I'm not vaxed - never caught it - but then I'm O Rh- so naturally immune. Or rather, Evie and I had a nasty do and Evie really was quite poorly for a short while, very soon after masks were introduced in France.
So I think it really just goes to show that love, care, healthy food & environment matter far more than any socalled science.
I was scared of it for other people - because if you live in insalubrious (or overcrowded?) conditions with bad food and too much stress you're bound to get ill (not just poorly). And far too many people were.
If there had been no 'vaccines' what would we have done then? We've have managed. I know we would. Because we protect.
There are only 2,500 people living in my hometown. My fil needs pretty much 24/7 care and pretty much has decided that *I'm* it... if he needs to use the commode or something while I'm out, he makes his son (my husband) call me on my cell phone - not that it does much good, I can't fly! At any rate, that means that I don't go out much, except for medicine/grocery/critter supply runs and doctor's appointments. The relative isolation may well be the source of our "luck" at avoiding the worst of the infections thus far. That and using masks, at least at doctor's appointments (after all, that's where sick people are likely to go!), but my fil has lost patience even with that, and he's still healthy. It must be something in the sourdough. 😉
I worry about people living in more conjested areas, too...
Sorry for the late comment, but I needed time to cogitate. While I agree with your basic premise that the "experts" don't know everything, and in some cases may even have a hidden agenda for passing along misinformation, I don't agree with some of the details.
I get influenza and covid vaccines every year. I have a pretty strong constitution, so I'm not that afraid of getting sick, but I'm the primary caretaker for my 88 year old father-in-law and want to expose him to as few illnesses as humanly possible. Do I worry that the US government might be using me as a Guinea pig? Of course I do, but I really don't want to be the one who ends up accidentally causing my fil's death, so there we are...
I agree that "climate emergency" may be overstating things, but I do believe that we have a climate PROBLEM, and that human activity is at least partially causing it: We're burning everything in sight, cutting down forests and destroying other ecosystems at breakneck speed, and consuming WAY too much, in every sense of the word. I agree that climate change is natural and inevitable, but we do seem to be speeding things up. I don't think we're all going to die, but things will definitely be different and we'll need to adapt - I suspect some of us will be unhappy with these adaptations. I'm very sad for the many species that are unable to adapt, like the polar bear - though there are confirmed instances of polar and grizzly bears interbreeding and producing viable, fertile hybrid offspring.
Our use of pesticides and herbicides, along with habitat destruction, are killing off lots of other species, including my favorite butterfly, the monarch... 😥
I think the biggest threat to human existence is human nature: The fact that so many of us are so greedy, so intolerant, and so warlike does not bode well. But even then, I'm optimistic enough to think that though we might get bombed back into the stone age, some plants and critters - and maybe even some humans - might survive. As you mentioned in one of your Katrina books, I believe it won't be the end of life, but certainly the end of life as we know it...
You are right about climate stuff. My basic point is that it's nothing to do with CO2. It's all the other evil stuff which evil corporations do. These evil corps have pushed the CO2 narrative in part to misdirect people from the evil they do. When I got into environmentalism in the 80s we never talked about CO2, because we knew it wasn't a problem. It was only after 1992 I would say that the entire activist movement (and 'Green' parties) got hijacked by the CO2 agenda. We used to care about genuine issues like deforestation (to name but one - others are available). By focussing everyone's attention on CO2 they are misdirecting people from the genuine issues.
As for these vaccines - you don't need to take them and you will not be passing anything on to your FIL. The immune system doesn't work like that. If you get infected with X, then you will develop an immunity to X. You having an 'immunity' will have zero difference on passing it on to someone else. This is particularly the case for a coronavirus, because there is a 10-day period during which various aspects of the genome prevent your immune system from responding, by suppressing/evading your interferon response. This is how you can pass on diseases without having any symptoms.
Flu is a seasonal thing. Ironically there's no such thing as flu. It is a series of different viruses each of which cause 'respiratory symptoms'. Which is why they do not write 'flu' on the death certificate but 'pneumonia' which is the effect of the final infection which kills old people (like my grandmother - it didn't matter what she was infected with, at 96 years old it was simply a case of 'the next infection').
So each flu is different. That means if you get 'vaccinated' against this year's version, it has zero effect on next year. So if you are going to pass it on to your nearest, you are going to, regardless of last year's jab. Furthermore, either your FIL will get it, or they won't. It has nothing to do with you. Your immune system has zero influence on someone else's. If you get infected with a cold which your immune system already knows how to deal with, you are still infected and you can still pass it on. It's just that your own body will deal with it so you don't get really sick ('sick' = symptoms = immune system dealing with it). But during the first few days, before your immune system has dealt with it, you can still pass it on. But if you are in the same area, then logically it's in the same area as you. In which case, your nearest will get it too. My point is that too many people mistake 'symptoms' for 'infection'. Most people are 'infected' by something at any random time you care to mention. Most of the time they don't get 'symptoms' because the body deals with it. But they can still pass it on.
Finally - with regards to 'vaccines' - it's not the vaccine that is necessarily the issue, it's the 'adjuvant'. The stuff that they say is supposed to 'trigger' your immune system. This is how they rely on people's ignorance. The adaptive immune system does not need a trigger. Any alien/foreign substance will be noticed and dealt with (crude example - male sperm). This is why prior to the mid-80s when they didn't put these adjuvants into vaccines, hardly anyone got any problems. Since then, however, like with MMR, injecting mercury adjuvants into children, the incidence of serious chronic damage has increased.
Trust me - as someone who has been translating cutting edge medical science stuff for the last 25 years - you getting 'vaccinated' will have zero effect on what happens to your FIL. Just give him a beautiful time in your natural environment, feed him your lovely stuff, and at some point, he will pass on peacefully to the next life. As we all will.
Damn it. I had most of a long comment down and Substack ate it when I popped over to Google to check on the spelling of a word. Let's see how well I can replicate it from memory...
About CO2: I'm aware that there are much bigger problems out there. My response is to plant more trees, though I know my efforts are puny compared to the bad stuff going on in the rest of the world, and certainly won't help the endangered species in the shrinking rainforests. But it's something I can do. I'm hoping that it will make a difference if enough of us do what we're able (and try to avoid doing things that make matters worse). I've heard of carbon credits, but my more-practical-than-me husband says this is a bullshit way of making money from guilt, so we don't do that.
There is so much "information" floating around out there about vaccines, that it's hard to know what to think. I live in a house divided: My husband refuses the vaccine. My fil gets it because the doctor advises him to do so. I get it because of the possibly propagandist stuff I've read, plus as moral support to my fil (he has a major needle phobia!). We've only had one experience with covid so far (knock on wood), back in late '21: I tested positive, but only experienced very minor symptoms for a couple of days, pretty much like a cold. My unvaccinated hubby was grounded for almost a week. Interestingly enough, my fil never showed any symptoms at all (his doctor refused to test him, saying that if he'd tested positive, he would have to prescribe paxlovid because of his advanced age and frail condition, which apparently has pretty nasty side effects). My fil has rheumatoid arthritis, so was on hydroxychloroquine (the word that lost me my first commenting attempt) at the time, but I don't know if that did the trick or not - as my scientific husband is fond of saying, one data point doesn't prove a theory. It doesn't really matter at this point anyway - if my wankerous felon-in-chief has anything to say about it, there might not be another set of vaccines available... which of course makes me think I SHOULD get vaccinated - I will admit, that's pigheaded reasoning, but I tend to be stubborn at times.
I'm also fully aware that getting a flu vaccine is like playing Russian roulette, that they kind of lay bets on which three or four strains will be the most prevalent and throw those into the mix.
At any rate, I agree that the most important way to keep my elderly fil healthy is to keep him happy and well nourished. If he's full of healthy food, his body will be stronger, and better equipped to fight infections. If the food tastes good as well, that will keep him happier, giving him more reason to live. And making sure that his environment is calm and pleasant will help keep his heart running properly. The rest of it - bathing, dressing, dealing with his meds, chauffeuring him to doctor appointments, etc. - keeps him in good general health. And having an important job to do helps to keep me on an even keel as well!
I love your stubbornness Jeanine. I'm very similar. It's definitely the healthy food and *love* that matter.
It's interesting about you and your husband. I was quite determined that both of my uncles (similar age to your daddy, one now over 90, the other will be 90 this year) should get whatever alleged vaxes were going - for peace of mind. Funnily enough my oldest unk once fully vaxed caught it at an outpatients' appt. He was stuffed into Intensive Care and didn't like that at all. One fully vaxed cousin caught it from him and had a mild sniffle. Another fully vaxed cousin caught it and had it really badly (2 weeks just in bed). I'm not vaxed - never caught it - but then I'm O Rh- so naturally immune. Or rather, Evie and I had a nasty do and Evie really was quite poorly for a short while, very soon after masks were introduced in France.
So I think it really just goes to show that love, care, healthy food & environment matter far more than any socalled science.
I was scared of it for other people - because if you live in insalubrious (or overcrowded?) conditions with bad food and too much stress you're bound to get ill (not just poorly). And far too many people were.
If there had been no 'vaccines' what would we have done then? We've have managed. I know we would. Because we protect.
There are only 2,500 people living in my hometown. My fil needs pretty much 24/7 care and pretty much has decided that *I'm* it... if he needs to use the commode or something while I'm out, he makes his son (my husband) call me on my cell phone - not that it does much good, I can't fly! At any rate, that means that I don't go out much, except for medicine/grocery/critter supply runs and doctor's appointments. The relative isolation may well be the source of our "luck" at avoiding the worst of the infections thus far. That and using masks, at least at doctor's appointments (after all, that's where sick people are likely to go!), but my fil has lost patience even with that, and he's still healthy. It must be something in the sourdough. 😉
I worry about people living in more conjested areas, too...