Dittos, appreciate sane discussion with sensible folks.

I read a Bloomberg article about women in childbearing years being afraid of the short and long term effects of the vaccine.  An excerpt: “Rumors on social media caused some young women to fear that the mRNA vaccines such as those made by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. could affect their fertility. That’s not true.” There is no way to earn people’s trust be making a statement like that that is currently unprovable.  But these are the time in which we live.  A very close friend who is a doc says that statements like this continually increase distrust of the medical community, and he thinks that trust may never return.

It has been an odd thing that the “in the trenches” doctors and nurses have not been wholeheartedly for getting vaccinated.  You would think the folks that know a ton about medicine would be 100% vaccinated.  And I know it is a hot spot, but there were doctors early on prescribing and healing people with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.  They saw success with their patients, and when they were told to stop or couldn’t get their pharmacies to fill their prescriptions… well, would it not make you suspicious of what is going on?

I don’t think we had any anti-anything folks during the first few weeks or more, after the “flatten the curve” mandate arose.  We trusted those folks.  But over time, ever-changing and conflicting information was unfortunately akin to the CDC, WHO, and Fauci basically shooting themselves in the foot.