If you take only one thing away from reading this article, remember this: The companies making the COVID-19 vaccinations don’t get paid for every life they save. They get paid for every person injected with an experimental drug that was fast-tracked through the clinical trial process. If you’re short on
About 3 million people die in the United States every year. That’s about 8,000 per day or approximately 6 people every minute. In fact, depending on how fast you read, somewhere between 10 and 20 people are going to die in the United States before you finish reading this. They’re
First thought:Earlier this month, as a vaccine got closer to being a reality, Helen Keipp Talbot, an infectious researcher at Vanderbilt said, “There is such a high mortality rate in long-term-care facilities. There will be a number of patients who receive immunizations for Covid and will pass away. And it
I’m going to start out by saying that I’m not against vaccines. I got a flu shot this year and I recently had a vaccine to prevent shingles. As far as I know, I’m up to date on all of my vaccines. So, I have no problem taking vaccines. The
I’m sure everyone has heard of “Beer Goggles”. It’s the idea that the more beer you drink, the better people look, and sometimes you end up spending the night with someone who doesn’t look quite as attractive when you wake up in the morning. When you drink a lot of
I think hate crimes are racist. Or at the very least, discriminatory. I’m not talking about the actual crime committed, I’m talking about the classification of a crime as a hate crime. Imagine there are two people out for a stroll one evening. Both are walking down the street, and
As I walked the streets this morning, death was everywhere. I saw bodies lining the sidewalk, too many to count and no one to carry them away. Everywhere I looked I was met with the glassy stare of the almost-dead desperately seeking help while gasping for their last breath. We
I’m sure everyone remembers Frank Costanza from Seinfeld. Frank was someone who could never be accused of repressing his anger. He spent years, if not decades, screaming and berating pretty much everyone about everything. In one episode (S09E03), Frank’s doctor gave him a relaxation tape that instructed him to say
I commented on a post a couple of weeks ago and told someone they were ignorant. She immediately took offense and said I was calling her a name. But I wasn’t. If I had said she was stupid, then she’d have been correct. But I didn’t. I said she was
There’s a meme going around comparing the COVID deaths between the United States and Japan. The claim is that Japan only has 1,000 COVID-related deaths and that low number is because people wear masks in Japan. Let me explain why this particular meme is quite likely inaccurate and certainly misleading.