WSJ: RFKj's Misguided War on mRNA Technology

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   I know nothing about mRNA vaxxes. But FDA knows what it's doing. And I just don't buy either of the views that have rampaged through the right in the last half-decade: (a) they don't know what they're doing and/or (b) they're trying to kill us.

   This is one of the things about which the right has been most ostentatiously and hysterically wrong, IMO: their bizarro hatred of and rumormongering about the COVID vax.

   Note: I'm not saying that healthy skepticism was out of place. But that's not what you see on some c

   The government lied to and otherwise mislead us about the effectiveness of the vax. Lockdowns and mandates were nuts. And it was utterly daft to insist that everybody had to take the vax (i) for a disease that was only really dangerous to the unhealthiest segment of the population, especially when (ii) it had not been sufficiently/extensively tested. People who refused the vax were...well...basically heroes--or should have been regarded that way. Ignoring some details: they risked their own lives to help ensure that humanity didn't die out if the vax did turn out to be deadly.

   And this should be our view now: don't take the damn thing if you don't need it.

   And many simply don't.

   Here's my longstanding view: lose ten pounds and get in shape. That'll probably do you as good as the vax will. (And it's baffling that the government never made this point...instead encouraging people to stay home...which means: eat, drink, and don't exercise...

   I'm kind of ashamed that I took the first round of shots. Not that I had much choice. Universities were hotbeds of COVID hysteria.

   I haven't taken any since, but not because I'm convinced it's not reasonably safe and effective. I just judged myself not to be at sufficient risk to need it.

   Since then, I've had a nasty case of walking pneumonia, and I've come to the conclusion (on the basis of this and other evidence) that respiratory infections tend to hang on in me. So that + being ten years older --> I'll probably get the vax this fall.

   (A conservative buddy of mine has said that he will physically, actually tackle me to prevent me from getting it... He's off his rocker about this stuff.)

   But anyway: I'm inclined to think that WSJ is right: many on the right are blaming mRNA technology for the social and political failures of the Trump and (especially) Biden administrations.