210714 Sentinel, Covid-19 Delta

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Springfield, Missouri Report

Before we go any farther with my facts on vaccines, I have to state there is no tracking device in the Covid-19 immunizations. The tracking device is what you carry with you every day of your life. It is called a cellular phone. The cell phone has been tracking its owners since 2001. Your cell phone triangulates your location down to within a few yards.

Missouri has low overall vaccination rate. There is a huge Covid-Delta spike in the Springfield area, just 10 miles from where we live. The 2 major hospitals have their intensive care units overflowing with Covid-19, Delta variant. The people filling those ICU units are between 20-42 years old and they are on ventilators while they are dying. The choice not to be vaccinated was theirs to make. Some of them will survive, but they will have health problems for the next 50 years. Having the Delta variant they could easily have already infect their children, parents and grandparents. By making the choice they did, they may also made an unwilling choice for those that they love.

Previous Vaccines

Young people today probably do not remember the effects of polio. It was mainly a childhood disease, but not limited to children. The vaccine for polio was introduced in 1955. Joyce and I were born in 1945 as were our schoolmates. We both went through school with others in our peer group that had the disease before the vaccine was available. Those kids went to school every day with crutches under their arms and spent the rest of their lives using crutches. Mothers across the country banded together to form “The March of Dimes.” They went door to door asking for 10 cents a person to pay for others to get the vaccine that saved thousands of children from contracting the disease.
Smallpox
Smallpox ravaged the world for thousands of years, killing 3 of every 10 who contracted the disease. Those who survived had horrible disfigurements for the remainder of their lives. Once the vaccine was available the disease was eradicated as in the case of polio.

Rubella (German measles)

Rubella is highly contagious and very dangerous to pregnant women. Rubella can damage the fetus mentally, physically and cause miscarriage and stillbirth. There is a vaccine to prevent the disease and save future lives.

One thing all vaccinations have in common is that they save lives. Some may cause a little discomfort or illness for a day or two, but that is a lot better than dying from not having the vaccine.