Almost at odds with morning,-- Lady Macbeth, Act 3, scene 4
With
the exception of the human papillomavirus, which memory doesn’t recollect as an
issue during pediatric examinations into puberty, I had the standard round of vaccinations
as a child, and in principle I do not oppose the efficacy of inoculations. I
had learned, from being a riveted follower of Hugh Laurie as the embittered gimp,
in his rebranded American series, that diphtheria is a nasty business with its
false membranes and significant threat of fatality. Most of us have never experienced
diseases like this, which were common in the time of radical abolitionists like
John Brown, and more common before his time. Penicillin
made such monstrosities an afterthought, barring anomalies, like Natalie Wood
playing the part of a polio victim
in the late seventies against Robert Wagner. This character may have been esoteric
for a television treatment, but citizens of Roosevelt’s generation were quite
familiar with the specter of polio and what it represented. In conjunction with
such great crippling, there was tuberculosis and syphilis, always a favorite
for the interesting progression of infected brain tissue.
Most
of us are educated enough to cede certain things to biology which have proven
consistent in accordance with natural law, and that includes skeptics like the late
Phil
Valentine and the latest digital muckraker from New York, Alex
Berenson. I had never heard of Berenson prior to a public texting company
declaring itself the sole proprietor of scientific accuracy. More power to him
if he’s able to succeed as an outlier. We’ve all been there, only my efforts
led to black women putting my life in jeopardy. Valentine was duly mocked by
progressives, and had it been I, my backstep might have proceeded in a
different fashion, or not offered at all. Valentine seems familiar, and I did
some research, being sympathetic to his initial position. For the time being, as
an obituary driven impetus, it got away from me, fiscally drowning in a
Medicaid driven crisis, but I still hope something reasoned, and anti-mandate,
might come together. Suffice to say, I don’t think adjuvants and RNA sequences mute
the hillbillies in their stand against dominion. I should add that I got the
vaccine because I would have never heard the end of it. And it’s Philly’s
section 202 housing system, after all, but if the Delta variant catches my
scarred lungs, and wins, well, the forces of evil have my fucking hit list.
