There have been many anti-vaxxers being mocked and ostracized for refusing to take the COVID vaccine. Some of those people do die from COVID complications and they are then targeted as reasons why people should be vaccinated against the virus. We also have people ostracizing those who do not wear masks. The peer pressure to make those who CHOOSE not to take the virus or participate in wearing masks because they look at the actual death rates of the virus and see that the odds are in their favor. In other words, a 98%+ survival rate means that as long as you are healthy and manage the illness PROPERLY, your chances are pretty high that you will survive.
Statistics can tell a lot. However, when the statistics are improperly gathered or skewed in a manner to hide the truth from the general public, you can easily scare a population into submission. In February of 2020, I testified in Topeka at a hearing about Raw Milk sales in Kansas. There was a proposal to ban the sale of raw milk but being a person who has many friends who sell raw milk, both cow’s and goat’s milk, I am in favor of the raw milk sales. So, I did my research to prove that consumption of raw milk was not something to be concerned about.
As I researched illnesses and deaths of raw milk versus processed milk, I discovered an odd bit of information. There were more raw milk product hospitalizations but there were more deaths from processed milk products. I wanted to know why this statistic was so odd. As it turns out, when the CDC or those gathering data found out that a person who was ill, has consumed raw milk products, they blamed the food borne illness on the raw milk without further investigation as to how or why. Yet, the processed milk products deaths were actually proven.
WHY? Why weren’t those who consumed raw milk investigated more in depth to actually prove the illness was from raw milk? Could it be that the researchers feared they would find that the raw milk consumers weren’t really ill from the raw milk but were ill from something else they consumed? How many of those ILLNESSES could have been proven from OTHER products consumed at the same or similar time as the raw milk? Statistics are often manipulated for reasons.
There were more deaths from PROCESSED MILK products because it was easy to follow the potential critical areas in which contamination can be found versus raw milk because raw milk goes from the cow to the milk tank to the bottle or made into the product. Processed milk goes from the cow to the tank, to a tanker, to the process facility holding tanks, to the pasteurization process before make into the final product and bottled or packaged. More places for potential contamination in processed milk products than raw milk products.
Even with the fact that there are potentials for risk of illness consuming raw milk and raw milk products, more and more people are CHOOSING to consume the raw milk since they have discovered the benefits of the raw milk product. The key is CHOOSING to take that risk. Very few people are being mocked or ostracized for drinking raw milk. Why is that?
People drinking raw milk choose to consume a product that they have researched and are quite certain they can manage the risk to the unknow illnesses because their body benefits from the consumption of this product. WHY can’t the same be applied to taking vaccines? If a person researches the vaccine and decides there isn’t enough information or that the vaccine has only been approved for emergency use, shouldn’t they be allowed to chose not to take that vaccine without being attacked or mocked?
Life is about choices. Each individual, each parent has responsibilities to themselves and their children. If they choose against a vaccine because there is a 98% survival rate without the vaccine, shouldn’t that be good enough for the public to accept? Or are people so worried about the skewed statistics that they don’t care that each individual has a God-given Right to choose how to live their lives? God-given rights over ride any other right given by man.
Don’t get me started on the number of people who are shedding the virus after getting the vaccine. Because there are many and even those who are getting the vaccine are getting the virus as a much higher rate now. Look for the real statistics and Choose to Live your life at the risk level you choose!
Educated Cowpuncher 