i need to do my booster. did the 2 part Pfizer shot. some places say I should request Moderna for the booster? mix n match? -sigh- I dunno.
things have changed -so much- since...the Polio vaccine. I'm 37, so I'm just...relating what my barely boomer (read: tale end of Boomer years, not really "hippies" or anything) told me...
people rejoiced over the vaccines being made readily available. the developer of the initial vaccine declined payment; it was for the -common good- . ahhh, yes. the common good. its not just for commies...
meanwhile, the us (understandably) pumped all kindsa $$$ into all levels of research and development of these vaccines...
and Big Pharma is raking in the profits. no one seems to mind, except the poor(er) countries who, for obvious reasons, aren't really high on Pfizer, etc.'s radar. whaaa?
I dunno. I appreciate the jabs, I do. I just don't see why society has disintegrated to the extent that its "freedom" to refuse vaccinations and then put others at risk and also, over the long(er) haul, put self and others at risk because of seemingly never ending mutations that occur more frequently in the un-vaccinated (but also in the immuno-compromised...I think even with vaccination?). and....
ok, as individual people, we seem to be at each others' throats over this. seriously. somewhat, semi-locally...a number of store clerks got beat up, police called in, probably criminal charges...
because of the "freedom" to refuse to wear a mask and (apparently) punch people who tell customers to please, please, please wear a -free- mask...for the common good. or not. by all means, beat up a worker making barely above minimum wage. "freedom," etc. :-(
but...common good extends to the corporations, social institutions, political class, etc. why is the political class allowing massive corporations to rake in massive profit when the polio vaccine inventor (salk, initially, I think) declined compensation and just urged everybody (and their mama! and their kids!) to please, please get his (apparently, somewhat painful...both parents have injection site -scars- !) vaccine...
for self, for others...for the --common good-- .
things have changed -so much- since...the Polio vaccine. I'm 37, so I'm just...relating what my barely boomer (read: tale end of Boomer years, not really "hippies" or anything) told me...
people rejoiced over the vaccines being made readily available. the developer of the initial vaccine declined payment; it was for the -common good- . ahhh, yes. the common good. its not just for commies...
meanwhile, the us (understandably) pumped all kindsa $$$ into all levels of research and development of these vaccines...
and Big Pharma is raking in the profits. no one seems to mind, except the poor(er) countries who, for obvious reasons, aren't really high on Pfizer, etc.'s radar. whaaa?
I dunno. I appreciate the jabs, I do. I just don't see why society has disintegrated to the extent that its "freedom" to refuse vaccinations and then put others at risk and also, over the long(er) haul, put self and others at risk because of seemingly never ending mutations that occur more frequently in the un-vaccinated (but also in the immuno-compromised...I think even with vaccination?). and....
ok, as individual people, we seem to be at each others' throats over this. seriously. somewhat, semi-locally...a number of store clerks got beat up, police called in, probably criminal charges...
because of the "freedom" to refuse to wear a mask and (apparently) punch people who tell customers to please, please, please wear a -free- mask...for the common good. or not. by all means, beat up a worker making barely above minimum wage. "freedom," etc. :-(
but...common good extends to the corporations, social institutions, political class, etc. why is the political class allowing massive corporations to rake in massive profit when the polio vaccine inventor (salk, initially, I think) declined compensation and just urged everybody (and their mama! and their kids!) to please, please get his (apparently, somewhat painful...both parents have injection site -scars- !) vaccine...
for self, for others...for the --common good-- .