Folks, as the leader of the Science Book Club, I’m all about knowing how things work like how clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (i.e. CRISPR) works using the CAS 9 component of the various CRISPR methodologies used by microbes. That is why I was excited to get the Pfizer / BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, since it’s a direct mRNA (messenger RiboNucleic Acid) vaccine using techniques coming out of the CRISPR biotech revolution.
Indeed, anyone who saw me on social media back in 2021 could see me being a whiny little b*tch when it came to my desperation to get a jab. Fortunately, I did get my shot, and my second shot, and at the time of this posting, I’ll be on my 6th dose of the COVID vaccine and have my latest flu shot and as discussed in the episode, I did indeed get my Shingles first shot, with the second shot to come in about a month, whereby I plan to also get Hepatitis B and maybe Gardasil vaccinations, or Monkeypox—if they don’t let me take the later. Knowing the 250 year science behind these amazing inventions makes me all the more eager to teach my immune system about all the dangerous pathogens I can.
After all, vaccinations, or virulations as they were known in the 18th Century, were familiar to President Thomas Jefferson in his day, and it’s an honor to use the same historic technology updated for today that the framers of this Democracy used. We’ve come a long way since then, using smaller and then microscopic samples of the pathogen, all the way down to mRNA. We don’t store the samples in Mercury anymore either. And we now know that the data linking vaccines to Autism is just, pure bunk!
While I’m elated that Smallpox is all but eliminated from humanity, I hate that in the 21st century, we’re now losing ground to Polio. Most people don’t that to pinpoint and capture Osama Bin Laden, agents posed as Polio Healthcare workers to get into his compound and find him. Having done so, and assaulted the compound, the Pakistani people grew to distrust the vaccination campaign workers and started refusing the legitimate Polio vaccinations. Eventually, Polio again began to spread and is once again on the loose. That was the faustian bargain we played. Eradicate Polio from the world, or eliminate the man behind 9/11.
So folks, trust me, get your shot and thank the virulations and the vaccinationists for finding a drug-free, one-to-two dose cure to so many nasty diseases. Stay healthy my friends, and thank you for watching!