A FINAL WORD

 

I don’t think I’ve ever said this before, but I am so glad my Mom isn’t alive at this point in time.  You see, she was a nurse all her life.  When she was a young girl, she had a baby brother who died of heart complications, a condition that back then could not be corrected, but today can.  It was then that she decided that she would be a nurse.

She went through Nurses Training at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio and it was just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor that she joined the Navy Nurses Corps.  She served in the Pacific Arena and was assigned to work immediately behind the front lines.  While most kids of my generation grew up on their Father’s WWII stories, I grew up on Mom’s.  One that I remember so well was the impact of Penicillin on saving soldier’s lives.  Penicillin was discovered in the 1930s in the UK.  But due to WWII, the United States played a huge role in ramping up major production for use in the war. 

I heard this story several times while growing up, and you know one thing Mom never mentioned?  That anyone ever refused the medication because they didn’t know what was in it.  They never questioned that it was developed too quickly.  They never refused treatment because it was part of the medical protocol for their wounds. 

I knew my Mom really, really well….and I can tell you right now she is turning over in her grave.  The unfounded, ridiculous chaos over the COVID vaccine would never have been tolerated by her.  She moved up in her career, playing almost every role a nurse could take on in her industry.  If she had even one team member who refused the vaccine, they would have been fired on the spot.  She would have said, “If you don’t trust the medicine or the science, then you have no place in this career.”

Can trust be misplaced on occasion?  Sure it can!  But you don’t mistrust until there is evidence to support that mistrust.  Over 5 BILLION doses of the vaccine have been administered globally.  There is little evidence to support mistrust of the vaccine.  Are there cases of allergic reactions…of course, there always is.  But there is no evidence that the vaccine is not doing the job it is designed to do.

And if the argument is still that it took too fast to develop…how do you know that??  Below is a list of the history of vaccine development.  I for one trust that the scientist and doctors have a good handle on how to do this by now. 

I remember getting my polio vaccination.  I was in first or second grade.  All the kids in the school were lined up, we went in one door of the Administration Office, bared one arm, got the shot and walked out another door…one long line of kids.  Mom was one of the nurses administering the shot.  There were no parents outside screaming and threatening violence.  All you have to do is look back through history at all the people who died of polio or ended up in an iron lung, to understand the difference that one shot made for millions of people. 

So…my final word…. give it up.  Understand that your refusal to get the vaccine can cause someone, if not yourself, to DIE!!!!