Louis Farrakhan has a program on my local public access channel. That’s about how popular he is, I guess.
Yesterday, someone actually asked me if it was true that the COVID vaccine would contain a microchip. I told him that it wasn’t (although I was on my way out the door of a business and didn’t have a chance to tell him that there is a Gates-funded project where a certain vaccine - I forget which - would be fortified with a biodegradable invisible ink that could be read by a scanner, so doctors would know the truth about whether someone did get a vaccine, for a year or two afterwards).
Talk about a premature ejaculation. Farrakhan is several months ahead of the rest of the world, so his worries about the dangers of a vaccine are speculative, to say the least. The last I heard, one vaccine might be going into stage 3 testing any time now. A couple of others are up to stage 2; the exact numbers might vary, but are of this order of magnitude. If the vaccine passes stage 3 and nobody dies or gets ill or else is injured by the vaccine, then the company in question can apply for certification, and the process will probably be expedited to get the thing on the market ASAP. Then the company can get going with large-scale production. Even under the best circumstances it won’t be completed this year.
Even in the best case, there probably will not be a vaccine available until next spring, and there won’t be enough to treat everybody for some time, so the high-risk groups get first dibs. I’d say that Farrakhan is doing everyone a service by not pushing to the head of the queue, except that his logic is … not just shaky, but not even logic.
And what is there is enough vaccine for everybody? Historically, 'flu vaccines have not been very effective, about 70% effective on the whole, AFAIK. The word from the wise is that, apart from avoiding people who are coughing and sneezing, the best thing is to wash your hands. But what with more frequent hand washing and using alcohol-based hand sanitizer when going shopping, my hands are getting dried out.
Masks? Not that effective unless they are properly sealed and fit snugly against the face. But they are still better than nothing.
