Respect people's choice, provide other options

It is long past time to stop shaming/bullying people who have chosen not to get vaccinated. Everyone knows COVID-19 is serious but people have valid reasons why they won’t or CAN’T get vaccinated.

People have had bad reactions, been hospitalized and even died after receiving the vaccine. Yes the vaccine has saved lives but it is not for everyone and is not safe for everyone. We need to respect people’s choices even if we don’t agree with them.

One size doesn’t fit all where COVID-19 is concerned, but the vaccine seems to be the only thing the medical field wants to talk about. There are therapeutics available, have been proven successful but are not mentioned when at a clinic.

Ivermectin “demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy” against COVID-19. Another recent review found that Ivermectin reduced deaths by 75% (American Journal of Therapeutics).

Monoclonal Antibodies are similar to the antibodies your body would produce, but are produced in a lab. They target the spike protein on the outer shell of the virus and interfere with the virus’s ability to attach and gain entry into human cells. It helps the immune system mount its own response.

These sound like good options for treating people infected with the virus but we aren’t hearing much about them. These are just two, but there is at least one more with more being developed.

D’Shane Barnett was quoted in the Seeley Swan Pathfinder last week as saying that of the 76 hospitalizations in the last month, 70% were unvaccinated. So 30% were vaccinated and still in the hospital with COVID-19! Doesn’t sound like vaccinating everyone will solve the problem of this pandemic.

We have been preached/screamed at for 18 months about how serious COVID-19 is. Weeks ago we were told that another wave was coming. If we knew that, why weren’t therapeutics made available for widespread use?

Our healthcare workers are stretched to their limit, and I am very thankful for them, but why aren’t they prescribing therapeutics that could keep people out of the hospital?

COVID 19 came to our house. First my husband got it and then he shared it with me. He ended up in the hospital but not before going to two different clinics. At the first one he walked out with a prescription for an inhaler and over the counter meds and five days later, at another clinic, the doctor treated him for pneumonia, which he did not have. At no point were therapeutics ever discussed or even brought up. His hospital stay may have been avoided if he could have been treated with therapeutics at the first clinic visit.

We don’t know long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. We’ve all seen the commercials about people being harmed from different drugs or chemicals and the subsequent lawsuits.

I’m not anti-vaccination, but this is still very new. Individuals must make an informed decision for themselves and let others do the same.

 
 

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prfeigley writes:

Recall the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It applies here.