A Good example is the Anti-Vaxxers worldwide.
It's not that purple bees from outer space cannot and will not fly up your butt one day. It's the capacity to see by Critical thinking what is and is not true. In other words what are the probabilities that something is true or not?
Let's look at alien bees that no one "including me" has ever heard of since i just made them up.
What is the probability of this happening? Close to Zero or likely zero.
Then what if someone tells you that someone who got a vaccine died?
This might be true. However, what did they die from? This is the point here. What did they die from?
Could they have died from natural causes? Could the person have been 80 to 100 years old and they couldn't survive the 2nd shot because their immune system just couldn't take it? All of these things might be true here.
For example, a friend of mine's girlfriend of 40 years just died of Coronavirus in Mexico while visiting there. He got it too but had no symptoms. Now he got both shots and the 2nd one made him sick with the flu for 4 days because he already had Covid (with not symptoms).
The point is that all the vaccine makers say that the vaccine might give you the flu or flu like symptoms, especially when you get the 2nd shot. And even with the first shot I got a low grade fever and was spaced out for 4 or 5 days but only about like you would feel with several beers or a couple of glasses of wine.
Would I want to drive for a few days after getting a first shot? No.
Would I want to drive a car for a week after getting a 2nd shot? NO.
But then again I'm 73 this month not 20, 30, or 40 anymore.
So, it's all about probabilities and we don't live in a perfect world.
Are all the vaccines perfect? No.
But the probability is that they will keep you from dying or even going into the hospital. Some vaccines up to 100% effective at this.
My wife and I are getting our 2nd Pfizer vaccine this next week. Am I worried? Yes. But I'm worried about getting flu like symptoms and not of dying at this point.
Would you rather have a temporary flu or would you rather die at a rate of 2.5% every single year.
If you add up all the 2.5%s you wind up with a 200% chance of dying by Coronavirus Variants by 2100 AD.
I'd rather be alive to travel and visit my kids and see the world while I'm still alive so I'm going for the vaccines and the boosters when they arrive.
But then again I've gotten a flu shot every year since I was 65 in the fall and never had the flu in 7 or 8 years as a direct result either. So, Since Coronavirus is a type of flu I think of these vaccines a lot like getting a flu shot with a little more serious symptoms that go away within a week so you don't die or get maimed for life from coronavirus.
NOTE: What made me think of purple bees from outer space?
There was a song in the 1950s called "It's a one eyed one horned Flying purple people eater".
My orchestra teacher played this on his violin and inspired me to play the violin too like my cousin did with this song by the way. It was released in 1958 when I was 9 or 10 depending upon which month it came out. I played violin in the All City orchestra in Glendale at Hoover High school in 1960 by the way when I was 12. I played the violin at this all city orchestra concert. I also played in the Wilson Junior High orchestra until I began the 9th Grade. I was never really good on the violin because I didn't have the patience for this instrument like my cousin did. He was first chair violin at the Glendale High School Orchestra before he got a full scholarship to USC in Los Angeles then. My best instruments are piano, organ, keyboards, pipe organs, Guitar, Flute. I taught myself Guitar and flute in my teens but I took piano lessons from ages 8 to 16 and played in my church from ages 12 to 21 piano and Baldwin Organ including the pedals and stops.
The problem with a violin is that you don't have frets like on a guitar and being 6 foot 5 inches tall I had a hard time placing my fingers right on the violin to hit the exact right note every time. girls and boys with much smaller fingers and hands than mine could do this more easily because they were much smaller than me.
I even had to stop doing electrical work at one point at 21 regularly because my fingers got too big around from injuries to play piano or keyboards and since music is very important to me always since I was little I stopped doing as much electrical work by age 21 or so which allowed me to continue playing piano and keyboards ongoing ever after that. When you do various kinds of construction work your hands are always cut up in various ways by wires and metal boxes and pulling different size wires through conduit etc. and boring holes with 1 horsepower electric drills with auger drills through studs in walls to install electrical conduit and sometimes pipes through which you pull wires too and installing electrical panels outside and in garages and crawling through attics with spun fiberglass insulation and under houses and stuff like this all the time.
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