I’ve always enjoyed your playlists and commentary. We should not divide. Calling people “anti-vaxxers” because they are fearful of a new, untested shot is not cool. Most of the people who are questioning this shot have all kinds of other vaccinations. They are not anti-vax.
This one is different. It is a gene altering shot.
Let’s all be tolerant of one another. This has gotten ugly and your music has always been healing. Don’t play into the politics of this thing.
The predominant focus of this article is the right wing punching down at transgender people. No commentary on that? Cool to let that slide and focus on the subplot of the piece?
Got it. But it’s not simply right wing vs left wing. Many “left wing” are fearful of this mRNA shot and advocate for personal health choices just as we advocate for a women’s right to chose and transgender persons’ right to chose.
I get the sarcasm with “I identify as vaccinated” but we all really should be able to choose our own path for our own bodies. There is too much division and there are more “left wing” people who don’t agree with being forced to take an experimental shot than are willing to speak up out of fear.
mRNA as a therapeutic began being used in 1989 and in vaccine development over a decade ago. It's not some scary new thing, and sorry, I lose the "it's my choice" when it poses serious risks to public health. What cuts through left/right wing is peak individualism, which is antithetical to the empathy you initially call for.
From what understand, they are a new type of shot. That’s what I’ve read.
Harvard: “ The very first vaccines for COVID-19 to complete phase 3 testing are an entirely new type: mRNA vaccines. Never before have mRNA vaccines — such as the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines that have now received emergency use authorization from the FDA — been approved for use in any disease. How do they differ from traditional vaccines, and what makes them so exciting?”
Yes, I understand it's the first vaccine using this technology. Just pointing out that studies on mRNA didn't just appear over the last year whole-cloth.
Just over a century ago, I would have likely died from testicular cancer as it metastasized to my brain (or suffered a horrendous attempt at surgery). Forty years ago, I would most likely have survived, but with a surgery that would have been very painful and taken months to recover. I'm thankful that when I got it seven years ago, the surgery took 15 minutes, I was working out again in 3 days, needed no painkillers, and while the single round of chemo sucked, it was completely manageable.
On the flip side of that, when I broke my femur in 1986, I was in bed for over three months with a pin in my leg for one and a full body cast for two. I still suffer imbalances in my body to this day due to the botched treatment. Today, if you break your femur, they have your leg casted up and you're waking in a day or two on crutches because doctors now recognize that blood flow is more important to healing than bed rest.
Vaccine science has evolved tremendously over the last half-century. The fears currently being spread are propaganda, not science. The bubonic plague took centuries to defeat because miasma theory was the going ideology at the time. Here we are, with researchers having developed successful interventions in record time by building off of previous research, and instead of celebrating we have to field primal fears spread by charlatans with vested interests.
I’ve always enjoyed your playlists and commentary. We should not divide. Calling people “anti-vaxxers” because they are fearful of a new, untested shot is not cool. Most of the people who are questioning this shot have all kinds of other vaccinations. They are not anti-vax.
This one is different. It is a gene altering shot.
Let’s all be tolerant of one another. This has gotten ugly and your music has always been healing. Don’t play into the politics of this thing.
The predominant focus of this article is the right wing punching down at transgender people. No commentary on that? Cool to let that slide and focus on the subplot of the piece?
Got it. But it’s not simply right wing vs left wing. Many “left wing” are fearful of this mRNA shot and advocate for personal health choices just as we advocate for a women’s right to chose and transgender persons’ right to chose.
I get the sarcasm with “I identify as vaccinated” but we all really should be able to choose our own path for our own bodies. There is too much division and there are more “left wing” people who don’t agree with being forced to take an experimental shot than are willing to speak up out of fear.
mRNA as a therapeutic began being used in 1989 and in vaccine development over a decade ago. It's not some scary new thing, and sorry, I lose the "it's my choice" when it poses serious risks to public health. What cuts through left/right wing is peak individualism, which is antithetical to the empathy you initially call for.
From what understand, they are a new type of shot. That’s what I’ve read.
Harvard: “ The very first vaccines for COVID-19 to complete phase 3 testing are an entirely new type: mRNA vaccines. Never before have mRNA vaccines — such as the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines that have now received emergency use authorization from the FDA — been approved for use in any disease. How do they differ from traditional vaccines, and what makes them so exciting?”
Yes, I understand it's the first vaccine using this technology. Just pointing out that studies on mRNA didn't just appear over the last year whole-cloth.
Just over a century ago, I would have likely died from testicular cancer as it metastasized to my brain (or suffered a horrendous attempt at surgery). Forty years ago, I would most likely have survived, but with a surgery that would have been very painful and taken months to recover. I'm thankful that when I got it seven years ago, the surgery took 15 minutes, I was working out again in 3 days, needed no painkillers, and while the single round of chemo sucked, it was completely manageable.
On the flip side of that, when I broke my femur in 1986, I was in bed for over three months with a pin in my leg for one and a full body cast for two. I still suffer imbalances in my body to this day due to the botched treatment. Today, if you break your femur, they have your leg casted up and you're waking in a day or two on crutches because doctors now recognize that blood flow is more important to healing than bed rest.
Vaccine science has evolved tremendously over the last half-century. The fears currently being spread are propaganda, not science. The bubonic plague took centuries to defeat because miasma theory was the going ideology at the time. Here we are, with researchers having developed successful interventions in record time by building off of previous research, and instead of celebrating we have to field primal fears spread by charlatans with vested interests.