SIR GUESTLING THORN

Day 251

I am pleased to report that our tests were negative.

Todays word: huff-snuff (16th century) a hector or braggart who is keen to scrutinise everyone’s behaviour but their own!

I read a report from Alaska where two people had an allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. 144 vaccination were given in total so 2 persons having a poor reaction is 2.8% of the total which as the vaccine is 95% safe is within the stated safety limit. I have no problem with those who for reasons of their own do not want to have the vaccine and I fully support that choice. I know many will have researched the subject and are intelligent enough to sift the the information from the completely insane conspiracies and understand the realities. Of course there is risk and if that is a risk you are unwilling to take then don’t. No vaccine is 100% safe. No medicine is without it’s limitations and side effects. That is the nature of medicine and human physiology. We are well aware of the vast number of strange and rare conditions that humans can suffer from. Science and medical science in particular has made huge advances in my lifetime and has eradicated conditions which used to cause the deaths of millions but it is not foolproof or always predictable. I am not clever enough or educated to understand the science or biology. There are those who do not trust the government or big pharma and with good reason. Big pharma are not in the business of being altruistic, they are a business who make hundreds of millions in profit for their shareholders they spend vast amounts in research as well this is the nature of that business. Governments have their own agendas and are hardly proven to be the most trustworthy of judges on these matters. We have to trust something though and make a choice. I have always believed in science and thus far in my life, medicine and the science behind it has not harmed me and indeed has saved my life! So when the vaccine is offered to me I will have it. Make your own mind up and research the subject, do your due diligence. If the percentage chance of it being effective are correct then those are pretty good odds.

You decide, that is what freedom is for!

Stay well