The Exterminating Angel of COVID is passing over our Shire. Mercifully few have been exterminated, but many, mostly unvaccinated people, have been ill – some extremely ill and needing hospitalisation.
If you are unvaccinated, you have 24 times the likelihood of a vaccinated person of being taken to intensive care – and some will die. But in the face of this, many unvaccinated people are doubling down and reinforcing their reasons for remaining unvaccinated.
What inspired me to write is that a friend told me his oldest mate had said vaccinated people are ‘shedding’ COVID, and giving the virus to unvaccinated people.
I researched this and found it to be utter bollocks. The sad thing is most unvaccinated people live in echo chambers and only hear like-minded voices.
There are good angels in the straight world collecting and reporting COVID information for us every day. And there are good overworked angels in frontline medicine caring for us and saving our lives when we get really sick.
In the mid 1800s, the average English life expectancy was 30 years. Our generation is expected to live three times that age. So far in my 73 years I’ve managed to dodge polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, small pox, tetanus, yellow fever, black water fever, cholera and COVID – all thanks to vaccination.
Pleeeeeeeeeez get vaccinated. With love
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