GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Showing posts with label covid-19 vaccines good enough?. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

COVID-19 DEATHS AFTER VACCINATION: THE NEED TO EXAMINE VACCINES EFFICACY.

ICHEOKU says the effort being made by the far left liberal media and their minions to muzzle anyone who questions the efficacy of current vaccines in our stables, in the fight against the coronavirus disease aka COVID-9, should be discouraged and discontinued, in view of the many people who are still dying post vaccination. If the vaccines are working as expected and as vaccines of yore have worked, this many people will not still be dying after getting their vaccination. Too many people have already died and many more will still die, people who were fully vaccinated and it is unacceptable. But instead of banding together, asking relevant questions that will help us see a way out of the coronavirus woods and help starve off these deaths, we are at each other's throats, choking off the living daylight out of each other. 

The country is so polarized between "pro vaxxers" and "anti vaxxers" that even the medical and scientific community is polarized too, between those scientists who want to resolve the coronavirus problem and those who are indifferent due largely in part to things they hear and see in the media which disparages their conviction, political and philosophical leaning. That Americans are divided is not in doubt and every day the chasm is steadily widening and it extends to all walks of life and endeavors. But the disagreement over the coronavirus pandemic and currently available vaccines is threatening to keep us permanently rooted in our respective foxholes and trenches where we are gradually bleeding out our unity as a result.

Homosexuals are divided from straights; liberals are divided from conservatives; feminists are divided from masculinists; Christians are divided from non believers; white people are divided from black people; other racial minorities are working tirelessly so hard to be loved by white people at the expense of black people who they are steadily being displaced and replaced; democrats are divided from republicans and their disagreements are bigger today than they were in many years past; those who believe in the "BIG LIE" are divided from those who believe in the "FAT LIE"; the pro vaccine crowd are divided from the anti vaccine crowd; and of course the gap between the rich and the poor has become wider than the Grand Canyon. 

The only thing still holding Americans together and in which many still see eye to eye are sports, McDonald's and the military, admitted the division is slowly creeping into the military, with a Chief of Joint Chief of Staffs who is not making matters any better with his desire to "understand white rage". Hopefully, his quest to understand "white rage" will not make too many white risk takers in the military to become so mad that they decide to throw in their rifles and uniforms and just walk away, rather than stay put and be grumbling, unmotivated by radical changes which will corrode the very essence of a one single spirit fighting army, not previously exposed to internal disharmony. With all the threats facing America, especially from China, American military could use less to no distractions at all, bothering on which race is raging. 

The problem is that America is gradually morphing into a one-idea, one-viewpoint, hegemony where everyone is minded and required to either conform or be disassociated from. People are no longer allowed to freely express their believes and/or opinions on issues, afraid that thought police might descend on them and make their lives miserable and unlivable. It used to be that everyone was entitled to their opinion and also free to express them, regardless of how idiotic or simplistic they might be. But not any more as templates now exists for practically everything as  people are required under the penalty of excommunication to conform or be damned. 

One example is the issue of the coronavirus disease, the available vaccines and the need for everyone to be vaccinated. Americans have been funneled into a tunnel of acceptance and any disagreement is met with a harsh reprimand. Nobody is allowed to hold any divergent opinion from what "science" told us about the coronavirus; and the same enforcers who are policing others, failed to also capture the fact that the same "science" told us so many different things throughout the course of the pandemic. Now, the same people are enforcing vaccine mandates and nobody is expected to raise any objection as well; and even in many cases where already vaccinated people are still dying, they expect people to believe that the dead are just "breakthrough" cases and it that it was expected. 

But how many of these "breakthrough" cases will there be before we arrive to the conclusion that possibly, the current vaccines are not good enough to provide us with the required protection from the disease. Instead, they have introduced "booster" shots as a shortcut to the problem and you wonder how many booster shots will be given to people before they finally accept that a better vaccine is what is needed to do the job. Is it possible that these current vaccines were rushed out and that they can be improved or even better ones found? These are possibilities but which we can never get to without freeing the space for contrarian views to inhere.

Nobody is questioning "science" nor needlessly want to engage in a debate of vaccine efficacy, but there should be a space in the conversation fora for people to air their fears, grievances and misgivings, both about the coronavirus disease and the available vaccines. People should not have to lose their jobs either because of doing this. But unfortunately, the freedom as we once knew it in America is gradually evaporating such that it is now either their way or the highway, no more accommodations for different thoughts, not any more. 

But were it a gender question or homosexuality or even religion, everyone will be asked to make necessary accommodations for others who are not like them; and that we should respect their choice to be free in the land of the free and home of the brave. If these other disparate classes of people can be free to do their own thing, which ICHEOKU does not begrudge them, why then the dichotomy in dealing with people who have some other opinion about vaccinations or even the coronavirus disease. The same blanket ban on differing opinions also applies to any questioning of the efficacy of the vaccine and whether effort should be rejigged at finding new vaccines that will in fact provide immunity against the virus. 

ICHEOKU says is not an anti vexer, have been vaccinated and encourages everyone out there to get vaccinated; but the rate at which vaccinated people are still dying is a cause for some serious concern. It should not be the case as many other vaccines in the past have worked just fine, so why not these coronavirus vaccines. ICHEOKU has never heard of any child who became crippled after receiving the polio vaccine, ditto smallpox, cholera, whooping cough etc. 

But any attempt to raise these issues is met with a forceful putdown as you are branded an anti science cuckoo. But allowing room for discussing respective concerns about the vaccines should be a good thing, not a bad thing, and should be encouraged not suppressed because in the process, we might discover something that was not done right with the current vaccines, which if tweaked, could lead us to a much improved and better vaccine that will actually inoculate us from the virus. 

It is inconclusive argument to make that the vaccines have saved many lives because we don't really know if that is actually the case. So many countries in the world with less than 0.1% of vaccinated population did not suffer nearly as badly as Americans suffered with loss of lives and infection rate. What do we attribute their lucky escape from the coronavirus disaster to, assuming vaccination saved our lives? It is akin to arguing that all of us would have since perished from the coronavirus disease if the vaccines were not developed; which is another argument in idiocy because not even the 1918 flu was able to kill everybody and there was no vaccine for it. 

We really don't know if the vaccines helped anybody survive the virus as many hospitalized unvaccinated people were still able to recover from the disease and long before the vaccines were ever brought on stream. So, how do we really know who was saved from dying from the coronavirus disease because of  vaccination. What if those who did not die would not have died regardless, because they have natural immunity against the virus or stronger resistance to infections general; after-all no virus ever kills everybody. 

As a people, we should come together, put our respective egos aside and begin to work as an army of one to reevaluate our approach to the coronavirus disease, find out why so many Americans have died from the disease, the worst casualty figure recorded in the world, more than China and India combined; how potent the current vaccines are and why vaccinated people are still dying from the disease. We should do ourselves this honor as a people in order to regain our preeminent position in the world and finally solve this problem which have lingered on for too long, nearly two years now. 

So many countries in the world have since fully opened up, some with nearly zero deaths; but in addition to over 700,000 deaths, over two thousand Americans are still dying from the disease today. Something is wrong with the picture and something went wrong somewhere and this is unlike America. This is where we should be concentrating our energies on rather than the divisive rhetorics which is tearing us apart; with one side trying to suppress and repress viewpoints which they don't agree with. May we all agree today to be better than we were yesterday and begin to see and appreciate the merits in each other's argument instead of shutting them down and branding them knuckleheads. 

Remember too that truth can sometimes also come from imbeciles and that broken clock is twice correct each day. What we know is what we know; and if only we can put ourselves in the shoes of others, those we are trying to muzzle and keep off the discussion space and ask ourselves, can we accept what we are dishing out to them were the tables to turn. We all can do better and let us start today doing better by allowing open discussion and debate of the efficacy of the current vaccines which we have, that we may finally solve the coronavirus pandemic problem before one million Americans perishes as a result. A house divided cannot stand and our intolerance of each other is gravely shaking our foundations as a strong country. We can be better and we can do better, so lets give both a try. #FreeUpTheSpace.