I am not an anti-vaxxer! But I am, and always was, very skeptical of the drug companies. Vaccines can be helpful, but they can also be very harmful. The vaccine makers are not liable for damaged health so what do they care.

One of the most hopeful of the new COVID 19 vaccines is being developed and tested by Moderna, a relatively new company. 

No, I am NOT a biologist. However I am a retired software developer and I understand how dangerous it can be to modify a complex system you do not understand well. And that is EXACTLY what this unprecedented vaccine technology does. And, if it passes the short term tests, it will be used on billions of healthy people.

Please be patient and let me explain.

The old vaccine technology makes the antigen and then injects it into people. The antigen is protein from part of the virus, that the body will use to create the antibodies. The antibodies allow the immune system to recognize and destroy the virus if it enters the body.

One of the new vaccine technologies is quicker, and therefore is being used to make the COVID 19 vaccine, since everyone is in a hurry to end the pandemic.

This is how it works: 

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is genetically engineered that contains the code for the protein of this virus's spikes. The vaccine contains this mRNA, in a protective solution. RNA is normally destroyed when it enters the body, so this mRNA must be protected. And to make sure the mRNA gets into our cells, electric current is applied when the vaccine is injected.

After this RNA gets into our cells, it instructs the cells to create the COVID 19 spikes, which are the antigen. And then the RNA is destroyed.

Sounds terrific, right? Well yes that's what the geniuses in charge are saying. As long as NOTHING GOES WRONG!

What could go wrong? Well just about anything. 

The processes that go on in living cells are UNFATHOMABLY complex. You think the great experts understand it all, but they don't. They understand a tiny bit, which looks like a lot because they have observed so many complicated details.

Will this injected mRNA behave quietly, do its job, and then disappear? 

No one knows.

Cancer and autoimmune disorders are likely to result if certain things go wrong. And we won't know from short term testing.

This vaccine could be forced on anyone who needs to travel, get a job, go to school, etc. Even though the long-term effects will not be known!

Will there be epidemic levels of cancer and autoimmune disorders years from now? No one knows! But don't worry, the vaccine makers will not be liable. If you get a horrible disease, it will be your problem.

Any takers?

14,000 is only .004 % of the population of the US.
If all of those deaths occurred just in NYC that would still only equal .15 %.

Why the fuck are the damn Democrats still trying to drag Trump through the mud in the midst of this "tragedy"? Why isn't anyone giving serious consideration to the fact that... ALL IT TOOK WAS A VIRUS TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY! Seriously, where are people's priorities at? How did we get to this place where we're more afraid of losing money than our lives? If you took money, the economy, this profit driven, debt based system of ours out of the equation... how far do you believe this virus would have spread out of Wuhan, China? 

Speak soon

HAPPY 4th EVERYBODY!!! :)

As an old guy, long since retired and far from the night scene..... meaning the clubs and loud music venues, my "night scene" these days means a quiet night at home in comfy attire relaxing in my Lazyboy recliner.  I appreciate a good pair of jammies. However the question now is; which style best suits me and my current life-style and how did I reach this conclusion, that is truly the question.  Perhaps my years of trial and error may benefit those of you nearing retirement age that have not yet had the opportunity to research this subject like I have.

I go way back and recall the days of my very early youth when the two piece metal button up type, with built in feet were in style and preferred by most mothers so they could sleep comfortably without worrying if their annoying kid slipped out of their cozy blankie during the middle of the night.  However; after I depended on that style of jammies,  and wearing them long after my teenage years, I was embarrassed to learn on my first wedding night those type jammies were long out of style.

It was my very first honeymoon night when I learned it was best to go bare so that night I reluctantly cut the feet out of every pair of jammies I owned.  My feet were indeed bare and after my subsequent first divorce, when I began to hear stories from other men how they lost everything in a divorce, I quickly related with them although most of them told stories of losing everything to their ex-wives but I wasn't so concerned about losing a house, a car, or a savings account like them, I plead to the judge to make her return the feet to my jammies.  I truly don't feel the judge remembered his youth with wearing his favorite jammies when he slapped that gavel down and shouted out to me "Sir, I would worry more about covering your ass from now on; not your feet".   Anyway, I was forced to deal with my situation, as most men are.

Now, we all grow up and mature with age due to life experiences and that happened with me years later while watching old movies and taking a liking to Carey Grant's jammies.  He preferred two piece jammies with pull up bottoms having an elastic waist band and button up top that I admit I didn't take to at first but soon realized those were the jammies for me also.  Well I wore that style for years until my next marriage and that honeymoon when that night my new bride ripped my top off, flinging buttons all over the room and easily pulling down my bottoms because of that elastic waist band and ripping them into shreds before I had time to get my feet out of them.  I have to admit I didn't realize I had married such a religious woman until that wedding night when she kept crying out  "Oh God" and "Dear Lord".  I felt kind of embarrassed as if I was being watched after her crying out to the Lord and me being nearly naked after she ripped my jammies off me.  I kept trying to grab them back to cover up.  Needless to say when that marriage was over (shortly there after), I lost another house, another car, and another savings account.  Once again I complained before a different judge I wasn't even left with a decent pair of Cary Grant jammies to wear, and without any sign of mercy at all he said "try wearing some clothes to bed from now on".

So now in my old age without a wife or a future judge to ever worry about.  I find comfort in wearing my flannel jammie bottoms with a t-shirt and warm polar top.  They are warm and comfy while I sit in my Lazyboy watching TV or taking a nap.  I truly recommend them to every man out there approaching retirement age like me.

OD