My mechanic is the kind of guy never too busy to stop and have a chat. He couldn’t have known I finally decided to be vaccinated when he opened our conversation with his doubts about covid, vaccines, why antibody tests aren’t given and do you really trust Bill Gates? My resolve to be vaccinated was being tested. Being tested isn’t something I oppose; it’s good to be clear. It’s wise to be prepared to accept all consequences. As our conversation covered more territory: gun regulation, distrust of politics, and the difficulty in having civil discourse, our respect and care for one another was apparent even in our differences.
I smiled beneath my mask, grateful for the human contact. And I responded with my thoughts that covid originated from human disregard of nature and one another. That if we do not wise up, it will be repeated. Yes, variants are real, and yes media and politicians screwed up. There is no reason to blindly trust vaccines and no, I do not trust Bill Gates. But then again I don’t put my trust in individuals or into systems.
I trust myself. I don’t want to be driven by fear or storybook tales – from any side. I want to reach that place that I learned about long ago, “Leave no room for doubt in your mind”. And that has little to do with untangling the scrambled facts that bombard us daily and drive us to take sides. He understood.
There are three little boys many states away that I long to hold. There are elders suffering from isolation and there are overworked caregivers desperately needing a break. For the sake of all, I will follow Love and trust something Greater than facts.
Jab the left arm, please.
let kindness win 
What’s killing us and is COVID a problem given the Mortality Statistics in Vernon County, Wisconsin 2009 to Present
A study of the mortality over a ten year period up until the present time, the 3rd week of April yields the following information.
The average number of deaths per year in Vernon county was 294.3. For the fiscal yer ending on September 31, 2020 there were 294 deaths. One third of one percent of the deaths (0.003) were due to COVID.
The average age of death in Vernon County in 2020 was 71. The average age of death for men was 69 years while for women it was 73.
The top ten causes of death were heart disease, cancer, pulmonary, Dementia, cerebrovascular accident, hip fracture, sepsis, renal, trauma, neurological/congenital, and pneumonia.
and accounted for 95% of the deaths.
Sixty four percent of the deaths were under age 85.
The number of deaths associated with COVID in Vernon county has been forty five. There were no deaths under the age of fifty. There was a spike in COVID related death between November and December. Since the first of the year the COVID death rate seems to be in the range of what had in previous years been attributed to pneumonia or pulmonary causes. There were no deaths under age 50. Eighty percent of the COVID related deaths were over the age of 80. The number of COVID related deaths spiked in the November – December time period. Since January of 2021 the trend 1.6 deaths per week. If the trend continues it will amount to 10% of the early deaths.
Seasonal flue deaths were not presented in the Coroner data for the last ten years. These deaths may have previously been part of the pulmonary and pneumonia deaths which combined average 13% of the deaths
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Hmm. Getting my vaccination today. New variant found in Grant County. I don’t know where the truth lies, but I will err on the side of caution…for all of us.
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Best wishes. By the long accepted definition of the word vaccine, it is not one. It is according to those who make it is gene therapy which cause cells in the body of the recipient to produce spike proteins for the rest of the lifetime of the body as the body has now become a genetically modified organism. Long term and generational effects unknown.
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You are writing to someone who grew up in an industrial park. 13 miles from a nuclear power plant as the crow flies.. I give more credence to Mirabai then to science. Best wishes
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