Goodbye 2020, and Good Riddance!

 

Well people, we did it. We made it to the last day of 2020. Tomorrow will dawn on the first day of 2021, and while Coronavirus won’t magically have disappeared, we have one thing that was sadly lacking in 2020: HOPE. That’s right, the Corona virus vaccine fosters hope for a better year. One that may even include a vacation. Do you remember vacations? I don’t mean sitting at home for a week just to use up time that you have to use before the end of the year, I mean actual vacations. Like getting to go somewhere other than your backyard. Sigh….I’ve really missed vacations.

Unfortunately, they are saying that it may take years before we see any results because of the number of people who are reticent about getting the vaccine. Because of course. This is why America can’t have nice things. All of the people who act like spoiled toddlers throwing Mom’s knick knacks and smashing them on the floor. Here are some of the arguments that I have heard are being used against getting the vaccine:

                “If they haven’t found a cure for cancer in all these years, I certainly can’t trust that they have found an effective vaccine for Corona virus in just a year.” Really dude? It’s called THE ENTIRE PHARMACEUTICAL COMMUNITY WAS WORKING ON THE SAME PROBLEM AT THE SAME TIME. Also, gobs of money were being thrown into funding the vaccine for this ONE VIRUS. There was no split concentration. No focusing on multiple projects at once. The entire world stopped and threw their weight behind finding a covid vaccine. This just shows you how much we, as a nation, could actually accomplish if we weren’t always divided on everything all the time. Or even a world as a whole. Teamwork makes the dream work baby and this just goes to show you that it actually works. Now if we could just get on the same page about global warming. 

    And do we really think that the people who are using this excuse would actually take a cancer vaccine if it was available tomorrow? No, they’d probably say something like, “Well, it took so many years to come up with it that I can’t trust that it works. I mean, if it were that simple, wouldn’t they have found it years ago?” These are probably the people that are never happy unless they have something to complain about.

“I don’t want the government tracking me.” Oh good Lord. This is what happens when people only skim articles or eavesdrop on half of a conversation. We’ve been over this people, it’s tracking the distribution of the vaccine, not putting a tracking chip in your arm. For frick’s sake, it took an entire population looking for an answer to this problem, do you really think they are organized enough to track billions of people? Just the sheer manpower required to log this data would be a decades long project. It took six months to decide to give Americans $600. (Oh wait, that’s not even a sure thing yet so probably even longer.) I’m pretty sure we’re safe from being tracked by THE MAN. Though, these are probably the same people who search for Area 51, wear tinfoil hats to prevent being beamed up to the mothership, and think that the static from radio waves is an alien race trying to communicate with us, so I’m not sure we can put much stock in their opinions.

“They came up with the virus so fast that they cut corners. It’s not safe.” See above reference to combined brain power and funding. Just because they came up with it quickly, it doesn’t mean that the government would allow the cutting of any corners. Guidelines still had to be adhered to and trials still needed 2 months of data before they could even think about asking for permission to manufacture the vaccine. Read that part again. They needed TWO MONTHS OF DATA before they would be GRANTED PERMISSION to manufacture the vaccine. Mom wouldn’t let them go outside to play until their room was cleaned AND inspected by her. So it’s not a matter of being unsafe, it’s a matter of having the most brilliant minds in their field working towards a common goal. Of course, these people also probably complain about having to wear a mask because it’s repressing their civil liberties, yet pooh pooh a solution that is working towards being able to get rid of said masks.

“I’ll get Corona virus from the vaccine.” This would be true if any of the vaccines contained the live virus. Since it doesn’t, it’s not a factor. These are probably the anti-vaxxers who still believe that vaccines cause autism, even though that was soundly disproven.

“I don’t put unknown chemicals into my body.” These crunchy granola types are only believable if you tell me they don’t eat processed food, tried pop rocks as a kid, drink soda, take a prescription medication for any reason, or partied in the woods as teenagers. If you’ve done, or still do, any of these things, then I believe the word that you are looking for is “hypocrite”. These people probably advocate herd immunity by having large gatherings and letting “nature take its course”.

Listen, don’t think that I am saying that you have to get the vaccine or you’re wrong. If you don’t want to get it, that’s your prerogative. I’m just saying that you can’t use some asinine BS theory to fuel your decision. Do some actual homework man. Find some research that supports your hypothesis. Research that is based in science and facts. Don’t listen to FOX news and hear half an opinion from some rando politician and form a half-baked theory that you then spread to more gullible saps who don’t know how to work the internet (or the card catalog, if you’re old school). As for me, I will probably opt to get the vaccine. Once the 4.2 billion people in line ahead of me get theirs that is. Until then, I guess I’ll just wear the mask and pray to the vacation Gods.

 

 

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