"Just Say No!!!"
I Will “Just Say ‘No!’” As a member of the demographic deemed most likely to die from COVID 19, I watched with interest as news of a vaccine surfaced and then came into reality at the end of 2020. However, unlike many, I am leery. Why? Because based on the testimony of one of President Biden’s COVID team members about how vaccines are safely developed and knowledge of the changes in vaccine law that leave consumers with limited protection in the event of injury or death, I choose not to participate. In 2017, Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, a respected epidemiologist, and member of the President’s COVID team authored the book Deadliest Enemies . In it, he recounts the announcement by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that a vaccine for AIDS would be available in two years. In Osterholm’s words, this was “wildly unrealistic.” Osterholm believes that two years is not enough time to develop “ any vaccine.” (16). The author later describes the normal process for vaccine...
