Editor:
Terry Torgensen’s cartoon for the Aug. 18 edition of the NCJ was quite astounding in one respect. It depicted a doctor recommending the vaccine “to prevent the spread of the virus.” Really?!
Surely by now, everyone knows that the COVID vaccines do not prevent the spread of the virus. They do not prevent you from getting Covid or from spreading it to others. The pharmaceutical CEOs, Walensky and Fauci have all publicly admitted the vaccines do not prevent the spread of the virus.
Surely by now, everyone has noticed the multitude of vaccinated people who have caught COVID, including Biden and Fauci.
It is disturbing to see the original claims of vaccine efficacy become a mythology and mantra, for a portion of the public, that is resistant to facts, science and reality. I ask the NCJ to stop promulgating this myth.
Amy Gustin, Ettersburg
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As the virus which causes COVID has mutated into ever more highly infectious variants, more and more people are infected despite vaccination; the good news is that vaccination DOES sharply reduce the risk of death for an infected person.
I’m not sure whether Ms. Gustin trusts a journal like Nature, but for those who do, there is a nice graphical summation here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021…
COVID had a chance to adapt and mutate into other variants because it was politicized and not taken seriously. If more of us had gotten vaccinated and we had all presented a united front against this threat to our lives, our economy and our strength as a nation this virus would not have the presence it has now. Blame those who failed to unite behind the cause to deal with this threat and the lack of leadership that misled them with phony conspiracies and fake news. Blame those who denied science and reason in favor of conspiracies and misinformation. If instead of advocating for the use of bleach, horse medication and other crackpot remedies there had been a united front to get our nation vaccinated, we would not have to deal with this. The lives lost and Covid’s lingering presence is one hell of a legacy for an American President and one of our nation’s greatest shames to bear. There are moments in history when leaders can inspire a nation to unite and act. What would have been the outcome of WW2 if there had not been leaders like Churchill and FDR who rallied the world and a nation to united action ? The world would be a far different and darker place. Unfortunately we lacked such inspired leadership. What we got was division and misinformation when we needed inspiration and unification.
Polio, measles and other threats are resurging because people are placing more faith in conspiracies and misinformation than they are in science and reason. I acknowledge that big pharma can in fact be a bad actor, but choosing to deny the good that vaccines have had through the years and will continue to have because one does not trust big pharma and chooses to see the boogeyman everywhere is dangerous and misinformed. We should seek to not allow a mistrust to color our perception, blind us and leave us open to manipulation by those who are using us to gain power and influence.