I am fascinated by something that the news is barraging us with these days:
- there are many people, most of whom are religious believers, who do not believe that vaccines are safe and effective, and
- there are many other people who typically don't believe in gods (I am one), who are quite ready to believe in the efficacy and safety of vaccines, based on what science tells us.
Is this not odd?
Jews made a
golden calf idol, but Moses objected. God said that belief in the idol would preclude belief in him (God).
Perhaps belief in one thing would preclude belief in another?
Many blogs and forums have
banned free speech. They claim that false info about COVID could cause deaths.
So, these forums only allowed
experts who were saying that we didn't need masks. Now we know that sick people spew spit (containing COVID), so masks have been necessary all along. Experts were wrong....forums were right.
Experts continue to say false things. **mod edit**
With such errors from experts, many distrust vaccines made by experts. Some say that it takes 20 years to properly test a vaccine.
Roughly 35 companies created vaccines to mitigate symptoms or kill COVID. Yet, only the first few received emergency authorization from the FDA to test them. And, most of the money is spent on those first few vaccines created (and they are not the best). Companies like
Sorrento Therapeutics have preliminary results showing effectiveness even against the new strains (resistant to most other vaccines). Their stock just doubled since last week, partly due to many other uses for its research (such as spit tests).
It is unclear whether patients may take more than one vaccine effectively, so it might be prudent to wait to see how the new vaccines are doing, and wait for better vaccines.
Even the Moderna vaccine only has a 94% effective rate.
Some have little faith in mankind (or science), and place their faith in what they perceive to be the creator of all.