Vaccination

This little rant is coming up due to a page "I Fucking Love Science" pushing vaccination again and again. While I agree with almost all the stuff they post, it seems like this one topic is something it will not stop pushing. The page is popular and they know they're popular. They're using this popularity to peer pressure people into something of their own belief.

Do some research yourself, while almost all medical sites will recommend you get the flu vaccine each year (which for those that don't understand it is injecting the dead flu cells into your body that was grown in chicken eggs before being injected into you). No site will say that it's a certainty that the virus is not mutating to pass over this new immunity everyone is getting.

A virus is a living thing, it wants to survive. In order to survive it must continue to hop from one host to another to keep going. We want to stop this by giving everyone immunity with vaccination and giving people who can't get vaccinated herd immunity. That'd be great if we could stop it completely. However, as a living thing and as the fastest mutating microbe in the world, in order to survive it will mutate into something we have no vaccination or medicine for. In fact, it could go from a pretty harmless cough and cold that you take a week or two off work for to avoid spreading it into something much more deadly, as we've seen happen in bacterial infections.

We over medicated all the bacterial infections out there, but some people either did not take the medicine right or it did not fully kill the bacteria like intended, that bacteria survives and then mutates to adapt to that medicine. Now you have a new strain of bacteria that you have no cure or medication for and it probably mutated with a more severe side-effect as well that could kill you.

Now let's transfer that to a virus, something that lives a short life but mutates much much faster. Rushing everyone into the hospital to get vaccinated, meanwhile a few of them out of fear of letting it spread already have the virus get the vaccination and the virus quickly adapts by mutating.

Viruses also mutate to transfer across species so for this vaccine to even work to fully wipe it out a few steps need to be followed.
1.) Everyone without the virus needs to be vaccinated.
2.) Every animal without the virus needs to be vaccinated.

We are pushing for step one, that's not going to stop the virus even if we do it successfully. Because now that virus is hopping over to each animal species to survive, mutate then come back and bite us in the ass.

There is also no scientist team even working on proving this right or wrong. They simply do not know whether these vaccines are mutating the virus further or just stopping them. It'd be nice to have 100% confidence that it is only stopping them and not making them mutate faster. But there's no work being done to prove or deny this possibility. Only recommendations and hopes that we're doing the right thing.

So this flu season, do not feel peer pressured into getting a flu shot, while yes, if you do get one and manage to not become infected or spread it further, that is good. However we do not have factual proof that we are not creating a more deadly super virus in doing so. So if you believe you will not be infected for whatever reason and don't think the vaccines are working, do not feel guilted into getting one. Anyone trying to guilt trip you could be effectively on the ignorant side of helping create a super killer virus even if they do not mean to do harm.

Yes, not getting a vaccination could be the death of you, but getting a vaccination could also be the death of you as well. We live in a fear driven world, where everyone is so afraid of dying that we over medicate and cause ourselves to die anyway. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps you all should get the vaccination each year, but I do not see any credible scientific studies to prove these vaccinations are not doing more harm than good. It's left to your best judgement whether getting the vaccine this year and the year after and the year after that is good for you or bad.

The Internet Age

We're going deeper and deeper into The Internet Age (TIA) with each passing year. I personally wonder what will be after it sometimes. I hope it will be better than what it is now.

Right now, we're stuck so deep into the age that face to face communication is a rare thing. There are bloody twelve year old kids that sit beside each other and text instead of speak to one another. Entire relationships that basically only happen online/texting besides when it comes to sex (IF they even get to that).

TIA is becoming a plague on communication and is creating a detachment in people's sensitivity towards others. It's simple to send a text message to someone you're in a relationship with and say "it's over" or "we're done". You do not have to see how much it hurts them (or how little). If you want to ignore people you can easily just not read/reply to what someone wants to say to you or you can easily 'block' them.

Perhaps this is why we are seeing an increase in 'mental illnesses' or 'anti-socialism' in people. Since we do not communicate face to face as often, it's easy for someone to be hurt by words and no one ever noticing behind a screen how badly they are hurt. So they begin to turn away from communicating with people or they get into a state of depression from lack of socialization (which yes, as human beings this is actually a need to stay healthy), which we then begin to group in mental diseases or mental illnesses or anything we can to put them in a group that something is wrong with them.

With TIA growing every day, being able to lie, back stab, cheat, hurt, bully or threaten is getting easier and easier. You want to hurt or humiliate someone? You can easily post things whether slander or not publicly for everyone to see online. Without a second thought, it's there to stay. We also see suicide on an increase. It's not something that happened overnight, but it increased as TIA grew. Simply because someone online says something without a second thought to how hurt someone already is or how hurt it will make them.

Then we actually have the balls to congratulate this behaviour using terms like "trolls" in a good light. Being an asshole is never okay. Especially toward people you do not know. This behaviour tends to come from the younger generations, it is very rare to see a person older than thirty "trolling" people for "fun". This is most likely because kids are growing up in TIA now. Parents who let their kids get away with anything unknowingly let this behaviour grow and spread. Perhaps we need to begin reinforcing age restrictions on things like Xbox Live, Forums or anything else interactive with other people online. The minimum age is supposed to be thirteen, but we all know how easy it is to bypass that one.

Why would limiting a child's online access be healthy and beneficial to society? Because they will not learn any more immaturity than their natural self and friends around them in real life. Online is the breeding grounds for insensitivity. Then to allow a child who is not even a teenager yet learn from it instead of what their own actions have an affect on in real life just increases this limit of insensitivity towards other human beings.

Yes, TIA has it's good aspects, being able to communicate with people when they're far away or being able to research things more deeply to understand. But with all the negative aspects, it's a wonder why we're not limiting access to it.

There are many stories of 'fails' or 'cheaters' that we take for face value. Assuming captions or what someone writes to be true. This is the internet, it's easy to lie, so when viewing a story about something or someone, do not make the assumption that it is true unless you were there in person and witnessed it. Spreading things around with little thought to its factual information just creates more ignorance and insensitivity in the world.

In the end, TIA is here to stay for a long while, but what we do with it is our choice. Perhaps one day people will begin limiting the things put onto it and the type of people allowed to continue to use it.

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The TT stands for "Thought Train", this is a place to just put my thoughts out in words to free my head up some space to think about more important things in life.

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