To Vaccinate Or Not ~ 2021's Question

To vaccinate or not, that is THE question of 2021

This is a follow-on to Dr Tiffany Jana’s excellent post on her switch from being an anti-vaxxer for years to becoming pro-covid19 vaccination. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/tiffanyjana_why-a-former-antivaxxer-ran-to-the-front-activity-6770016586301501440-osIc

As a philosopher, it is my responsibility & honor to mentor the globe on how to think as complexly as she has done about her and her family’s personal circumstances when evaluating the risk versus reward proposition for receiving the covid19 vaccination.

This is a thinking exercise and thought experiment using Life-Centric Thinking on the topic of the covid19 vaccination.

"Life-Centric Thinking" is the foundational strategy of the branch of philosophy I have founded: #WellbeingPhilosophy. The easy definition of Life-Centric Thinking is > "First Do No Harm to Any Molecule of Life."

Disclaimer > Obviously this is not medical advice. This is philosophical inquiry into the validity of the public dialogue around preventing the spread of covid19.

Why continue reading?

I am a stauch anti-racist and have dedicated the rest of my life to demonstrating racial harmony. My role is to hold whiteness accountable to the heinous crimes of white supremacy and the pervasive harm of the ‘delusion of white superiority’ while constantly prioritizing showing respect & love to Black Humans. By uniting extremes, since we’ve all noticed my own paleness, I very intentionally intend to show respect and love to all skin tones in between; but with so much to fix, with lives at stake, we cannot always spend time iterating how inclusive we are.

Know that my thinking is intentionally as inclusive as possible. I will not respond to what-about-ism; but will absolutely honor all factual evidence or lived experience by or about specific groups of people or individuals.

This philosophical argument is intended to provide insights into how to think about your own position on getting vaccinated as thoroughly as current evidence and data allows.

One of the key things to realize is that covid19 is an entirely different & more novel bug than the ones that vaccination has proven to diminish. Plus, we’ve only eradicated one or two of those. Mostly we need constant vaccinations to stay on top of the annual adaptations of our microbial foes. Therefore, anyone saying anything for certain about the covid19 vaccination is not thinking clearly. Only time can demonstrate the ultimate efficacy.

You must be responsible for accurately evaluating your own risk & reward proposition using Clearly Logical Thinking

What we’ve come to term critical thinking is not all that valuable in chaotic circumstances involving living organisms because that phrase has come to mean verify your position using previous data.

Precedent left Earth during March 2020 ~

We now exist in a world of entirely new questions.

As critical thinking is mostly thought of, currently, it is all about our show-me-the-study culture. Studies only exist when someone pays for them, which means what we think is science, over the last 50 years especially, is predominantly about generating revenue for some independent venture. VC, capitalizing ventures, is likely to self-extinct our species, because when profit is always the primary driver of decisions, life and its ever-moving and changing states are forced to conform to static, rigid ways of operating at the lowest cost.

Globally, we need to be mindful that neither the manufactured vaccination, nor its supply chain will not be able to change as quickly as covid19 can adapt or evolve.

Let’s define those terms. Adaptation is possible within an organisms lifetime. Evolution occurs generationally. An example of covid19 adapting is how it may start being transmitted by a common cold or flu bacteria giving it more chances to find a host. An example of covid19 evolving is that it may discover how to become airborne, then we are in a Hollywood apocalypse movie scenario.

Remember, viruses are not alive, when we use movement as the definition of life. Self-generated movement is basically how we universally define life. Stuff needs to be moved, via application of forces, while organic cells all have the capacity to move. Even single-celled amoebas blob around, microscopically.

So covid19 sits around waiting for some form of life, like a bacteria, to move it to a host. Our data shows that covid19 mostly is transmitted by humans to humans.

As an anti-racist, I see that we need to take a detour. Stick with me here, please.

Covid19 is not prejudiced. This virus believes all 7.8 billion humans are perfect hosts. Covid19 cannot see skin color. I do not see any biological reason that it would affect Black Humans differently than paler people.

The health and infection outcomes ARE DRAMATICALLY different because of drastically different environmental circumstances between Black Humans and paler varieties.

Please, try to spread this data accurately. This NOVEL virus affects all humans similarly, based on the level of research we’ve acquired in just around a year.

The widely varying OUTCOMES of the virus therefore, so far, are entirely about the societal differences in the environmental circumstances of Black versus paler humans.

The primary reason is that population density increases human-to-human viral spread. The secondary reason is that Black Health is de-prioritized in all ways by governments, medical research and medical practitioners. These outcomes are fundamentally due to the economic realities of different skin colors in tour elitist capitalism funded civilization.

SHOULD YOU VACCINATE?

The first premise that is globally true is that 'the establishment' is thoroughly pro-vaccine. The funding supporting the efficacy of vaccines comes from the same source - pharma companies. Government does not create vaccine science, it is responsible for ensuring that the profit-based vaccine-making companies are following ‘established’ protocols to avoid already known adverse health effects.

The bullying to vaccinate and the likely-to-come mandates from employers or localities or organizations is all about the fear of lack of income, revenue, profits.

YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN YOUR ANNUAL SALARY

That is the position I am arguing for.

The establishment exists to be the arbiter of the greatest public good, which is entirely antithetical to the greatest personal good in the domain of public health, because human health is not something that can be managed as an average or medium. In contrast, the greatest good for maintaining roads or building bridges is skin-color-blind. But most governments approach public health like construction projects…

Each human has an individual risk/reward profile for any medical intervention. You must optimize your own mental fitness to ensure your optimal health when things are moving extremely fast for the lowest common denominator good in a nation entirely built for the survival of elite capitalists.

Follow the money, and remember science requires funding. Quite a lot of long-term funding.

I believe MC Hammer said it best: “When measuring include the measurer.”

https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1363908982289559553?s=20

Therefore, you must assess the vaccination risk & requirements individually for your family by using categories like these, in combination with evaluating the frequency that they need to go out to interact with the public.

Infants

Children 3-12 > anecdotal evidence shows any vaccine can alter lives on occasion

Teenagers > far less anecdotal evidence & they are more able to follow precautions & voice if they are feeling unwell associated with vaccine

Adults

Chronically Ill> Will have a greater likelihood of adverse effects as their bodies are

Elderly

Now, if you are supporting your household and your job requires interaction with the public, you need to be first on the list for vaccination so that you can continue to support your family and not become sick or bring the virus home - although I have seen no data that the vaccination adequately stops you from being a spreader. Have you? Share links in the comments!

Critical thinking lesson > Having less likelihood of personally becoming sick due to covid19 is not necessarily a sign of not being infectious. What stops the pandemic aspect of any given microbial illness is that each person’s immune system handles the virus without tipping into full-blown symptomology.

This is not the same as not being infectious for some period between coming in contact with the virus and completely eradicating it from your own immune system, which means you are no longer able to pass along the virus.

Vaccines do not fight the virus in the wild world surrounding us, only within the immune system of those vaccinated. 

This is the reality that necessitates herd immunity. A now contentious concept, because it can easily be misinterpreted. The pro-vaccine front seems to demand we all cow-tow to being vaccinated to establish herd immunity. But these folks, being pro-vaccine, have by self-definition, taken ‘em all and are now certain their own body can handle being infected, so if some percentage of other people need to stay away from vaccines, due to serious health concerns, those vaccinated will be fine. 

These folks need to stop worrying about what is happening in other people’s bodies.

Furthermore, as far as I’m aware no anti-vaxxer has ever tried to stop all vaccinations, categorically. They are primarily demanding continued research to stop the harm and for the capacity to have personal exemptions for chronically or acutely ill humans, mostly children, where we have verifiable circumstantial evidence that some kids are having their entire lives altered in noticeable proximity to being vaccinated.

What sort of society objects to more medical research?

Only a show-me-the-money perverted one run by the elite for themselves.

{Which brings us to an appropriate time to declare my intentions> I’m seeking a Patron or three who can write major checks to share this sort of knowledge freely and widely as our best shot, as a species, is an abundance of clear, anti-racist, life-centric thinking. Connect & let’s Zoom about a seed investment in the #WellbeingPhilosophy Institute.

I’d be honored to base operations in Africa or the Caribbean so that, for once, and perhaps for all the future, the birthplace of humanity or societies where the majority are more fully melanated people, can become the center of concern for the continued success of our species.

We all exist only because of the intelligence of early African civilizations and the success of African migration across the world. That we lost sight of these facts is the heinous legacy of colonialization over the last ~500 years.}

Back to covid19 vaccination

Here’s a crucial point. A virus is a small bit of RNA, therefore covid19 can adapt & evolve as quick as a lightning strike, while we humans need an 'eon' to evolve given our complexity. You can adapt, though, as quickly as changing your mind. Your mental fitness is absolutely your most prized possession; as the world around us, for the next foreseeable decade, will alter in nearly unimaginable ways due to the global chaos of 2020.

So beyond needing the vaccination to continue providing the livelihood for your family if you work with the public outside your home with any sort of regularity, think about how little we know about covid19 over such a short time and its unknown capacity to adapt or evolve rapidly.

To be widely beneficial, the science and manufacturing of the vaccination must be able to keep pace with covid19’s ability to spread. It is fitter than we are, in the sense that it only cares about its continuing existence, but we are all worried about our egos, our achievements, our superficial appearances and most deadly our stuff.

What can I do to stop the spread if I chose to not vaccinate?

Wear gloves

Here’s the thing, in philosophical terms, the virus is not airborne. It does not float around attached to oxygen, nitrogen or carbon, the three main elements of Earth’s air. Covid19 is propelled within a package of human effluvia by the actions of human coughing, sneezing or touching a surface with a viable, non-moving virus, and inserting that virus into (or near) our mouth or nose (perhaps also eyes...science is still being conducted)

An important tangent. We know the 45th administration was a sham. So of course, the Biden & Harris administration has a lot to clean-up, but I see no acknowledgement that masks are inadequate to stop the spread. I see a lot of more-masks initiatives. But if the virus is not primarily airborne, we need a combination strategy that addresses that given what we’ve all experienced, masking is not sufficient, in itself.

Philosophically, I believe it is a valid premise to demand research on whether the primary mechanism of transmission is that we are touching surfaces with viable viruses and bringing the virus into our bodies because we are insanely trusting hand washing and anti-viral pumps. Remember, someone is raking in the cash-flow on the increased spending on these manufactured products.

Have you heard anyone clearly state this obvious observance?

Anti-viral hand treatments take care of what you previously touched.

3 seconds after cleaning your hands, you can immediately & inadvertently touch a viral-loaded surface and if you touch your face, to adjust your mask, you have created an infection opportunity.

If our government was functioning philosophically, we’d have prominent research being conducted to exhaustively determine which type of masks are the most protective. Instead, it is a virtual free-for-all from paper ‘party’ masks to designer bling masks. And not even medical professionals have on-demand access to medical-research validated mask technology, reliably.

Masking is not as robust a solution as anyone is assuming it is.

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Gloves present a similar problem, so if you are looking to fund research, let’s get some testing on mask and glove materials to research how fully they prevent the transmission of covid19.

Because from my philosophical standpoint, all our emperors are naked. They are asking us to praise them for doing literally nothing, relevant to the greatest personal public good. While certain industries like anti-viral concoctions and vaccines, which have data of harm to certain categories of individuals, are raking in the profits > hand into mouth.

Gloves plus masks may be the tipping point we need, as individuals, to do our personal best to stay healthy and stop the spread.

Why has no one in charge brought up glove requirements? Can they be thinking clearly since this is a widespread - pun intentional - oversight?

Disclaimer, again > Obviously this is not medical advice. This is philosophical inquiry into the validity of the public dialogue around preventing the spread of covid19.

If you’ve learned a little about how to think "Life-Centrically" in general or about covid19, please spread this article so that the skills of wisdom can go viral.

If you are able to donate, I’d be thoroughly grateful for funds to be directed to paypal.me/debhelfrich ~ but I’d rather you mention me directly to the smartest and/or the richest person you know.

I'm not focused on my own fortune, because I realize my own greatest good is the health of all humans.

~Deb Helfrich

I think, write and act on behalf of all 7.8 billion of us. I am one of the most lucrative investments imaginable, at this stage of the pandemic. As the reason I’m able to think so clearly about human health is because I lost my 40’s to a toxic mold exposure and had to adapt, then evolve my own thinking equipment to stay alive due to near fatal brain malfunctioning. In essence, I lost the ability to walk & talk for years of solitary confinement. In all sincerity, I’ve lived in pandemic sheltering-in-place conditions since 2010.

I can apply “Life-Centric Thinking” the core strategy of #WellbeingPhilosophy to all the intractable problems of our civilization. I do not want to become an internet sensation or create expensive workshops or courses for the rich.

I want to enlighten and empower all humans with the true potential of their own thinking equipment. This approach is abundance incarnate.

I am thoroughly mindful of not becoming a white savior, I want to embed myself as a catalyst surrounded by #BlackExcellence and #BlackIntellectual within a #BlackLedNation ~ Which my gut-level, intuitive, validated by Life-Centric, analytically-creative, critical thinking says that is the most optimal way to create the best possible world for all 7.8 billion humans across every nook and cranny of planet Earth.

Because we have to get skin correct, first, to stand any chance of reversing chronic disease, egregious societal inequities, climate change & building a fully equitable world where every human born is guaranteed clean air & water, adequate nutrition, secure shelter, and reliable electricity that powers internet access to earn a living.

Harmony Ya’ll

Addendum: My reasons for an orientation that is logically challenging of vaccines is illuminated in the header image & text from wikipedia on vaccination schedules. Sure, vaccines have been tremendously beneficial to humanity in the past! But working in the past is not a guarantee of current efficacy or future necessity.

Wikipedia cites that the US of Hypocrisy currently schedules 24 vaccinations before age 2. If we were a logical society, there would be ongoing, prominent research into vaccination efficacy based on developmental realities by gender, age and a range of health states. The reason we combine so many is based on adult work schedules, both parental and doctoral. This is not necessarily the best timing for human childhood development. Perhaps being infected with certain flu strains or taking other medications precludes kids bodies from processing vaccines in the standard way....

Furthermore, and most crucially, when it comes to the dramatically adverse effects some kids experience in proximity to vaccinations, is the concept of Inter-Operability.

We all know it keeps getting more and more frustrating and sometimes impossible to use tech as it advances. Most adults are not adapting well to the onslaught of the niche-app culture, where cloud apps do one thing well, but do not integrate with the rest of the apps we depend on.

In fact, right now, trying to finish this section on LinkedIn; I lose my train of thought because the 'saving' word is flashing up in the right-top corner of this page. My power of thought & train of thought is being disrupted by the poor design, testing and QA of the Linkedin article drafting software. My peripheral vision is constantly being stressed and we now KNOW that most disease not tied to 'bugs' is caused by STRESS.

Childhood vaccines are manufactured by many different companies, all with proprietary, profit-generating formulas. They are certainly not sharing information with competitors. How does the FDA test childhood vaccines for safety? On kids? I don't know, precisely, but I bet they skimp on doing what is termed regression testing in software.

One slight adjustment in one companies vaccine may not be harmful, at all, by itself, but may be the tipping point, in combination with other small tweaks by two or three companies, in combination.

This seems especially relevant when we realize kids younger than two cannot report any adverse effects lacking language, importantly; then the capacity to have a memory of wellbeing states for comparison's sake, plus they are years from the cognitive development of understanding the concept that an external action may be making them sick.

ADULTS! Your mental fitness is crucial to your family's wellbeing in a capitalistic society where most decisions, even those seemingly in the public good are being executed by profit-generating companies who declare their primary responsibility is to their shareholders.

#WellbeingPhilosophy empowers the capacity to ask much more logical questions that will create valid, testable hypotheses for medical researchers.

Let's fund equitable access to mental fitness for all humans on planet Earth!