We had a couple of errands yesterday but nothing to do today. I have a couple of clean ups and sorting to do but otherwise nothing pressing. It is raining and a bit on the cold side. In a way, I don't mind the cloud cover because I can open the blinds and not be blinded by the sun.
Early morning news/commentary show had an interesting piece on the problems Biden might be having with African American voters. Robert Kennedy, Jr. might be peeling off some of that demographic--particularly with his vaccine skepticism. But that should not surprise anyone. During the pandemic a good many pundits noted that the black communities were skeptical from the start thanks to a not very happy history with American medicine. And there is another problem: how much should anyone trust the statistics that comes out of the "medical-industrial" complex? Especially since the statistics are put out to us filtered through a press establishment that isn't necessarily all that well educated in medicine or science. The early results were very promising but they were only preliminary. And the coverage in the press didn't often distinguish what the statistics indicated. Were they indicating the probability that the vaccine would prevent COVID altogether, or that it would prevent severe illness, or that it would prevent hospitalization/death? That was very murky. Lately, I have read some accounts from people collecting data about severe conditions that were linked to, but not necessarily caused by, the vaccine. The FDA approves new drugs based on the trial data provided by the drug companies. Since the companies have already invested a lot of time and money (their own and taxpayers') and they want a profit, they have a strong incentive to present "good" data. I won't continue but I think there are many reasons to be skeptical of modern industrial medicine.
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