When Will Homo Sapiens Advance? : Philosophical Thinking After Reading Our History of Wars

 Nadene Goldfdoot                                          

After reading about the history of the Jewish people, my ancestors whose DNA I carry, I have felt appalled at the amount of defensive fighting they have had to endure all their lives.  It's quite depressing.   True, when they left Egypt after a subjugation of slavery for 400 years, they had to fight much of the way into and while in Canaan but this was in self defense.  People saw them coming and attacked first. .  What they went through to cause them to migrate to Canaan, we don't know.  From then on, it had been all defensive fighting against enemies who wanted what the Jews had created.  They always managed to steal the gold and silver loot out of the Temple first before destroying it. 

                                           

Then I see that this pattern of fighting has happened throughout the whole world; one group of people taking over others' land.  One notices it after reading about the Greek Syrians fighting Israel.  The Greeks had been involved in many wars before that.  Then about 100 years later, the Romans were attacking the Jews. In the Middle East alone they had to contend with the Muslim invasion, Umayyad Dynasty, Abbasid empire, and the Ottoman Empire.  

War has been a pattern of homo-sapiens ever since we evolved, no doubt.  It is continuing now with Iran, Russia, China looming over everyone's fate causing at the least, anxiety.  We've had 2 world wars, killing off much of our population.  There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 5.7 million soldiers while the Central Powers lost about 4 million.  Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.  As of 2019, our world population is 7.674 billion people.             

Truth is, we homo-sapiens haven't evolved since we were on the scene. We've developed technically but not otherwise.   We haven't kept up at all with the technical creations we have developed.  Our thinking has only caused some dendrites in our thick skulls to grow more in order to create more.  We haven't learned to get along with others as well as we could. 

                                                   

In Europe, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils date to only 35,000 years ago. But studies of genetic variation among living humans suggest that our species emerged in Africa as long as 200,000 years ago. Scientists have recovered Homo sapiens fossils in contexts dating to 165,000 to 195,000 years ago in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley and Middle Awash Valley. Evidence is clear that early humans dispersed out of Africa to southern Asia before 40,000 years ago. Similar modern-looking human fossils found in the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel date to 80,000 to 120,000 years ago. Homo sapiens fossils dating to 100,000 years ago have been recovered from Zhiren Cave in China. In Australia, evidence for a human presence dates to at least 42,000 years ago. Nothing like a human revolution precedes Homo sapiens’ first appearances in any of these regions. And all these Homo sapiens fossils were found with either Lower or Middle Paleolithic stone tool industries.

                                        

Eight Main Causes of War

1. Economic Gain
2. Territorial Gain
3. Religion
4. Nationalism
5. Revenge
6. Civil War
7. Revolutionary War
8. Defensive War                        

Mike Martin, a soldier with the British forces in Afghanistan, found that Afghanis fought to uphold family honor, and experiencing the exhilaration of conflict, which must have a lot to do with hormones and genes.  He wrote a book, WHY WE FIGHT.  Is fighting in our genes? 

Historical Examples of Wars Fought for Territorial Gain

• Mexican-American War (1846-1848) – This war was fought following the annexation of Texas, with Mexico still claiming the land as their own. The U.S. outfought the Mexicans, retaining Texas and incorporating it as a state.
• Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885-1886) – Bulgaria and Serbia fought over a small border town after the river creating the border between the countries moved.
• Arab-Israeli War or "Six Day War" (1967-1988) – Israeli forces took the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan. Why?  For defense.  Israel had been under stress of attack.  Syria's army was entrenched on the Golan Heights and shelled Israeli villages in the Jordan Valley below.  The Syrian Government persisted in its attempts to divert the sources of the Jordan River and deprive Israel of the water vital to its citizens and its development.  By the 1st months of 1967, as a result of this active policy of hostility towards Israel, tension grew between Syria and Israel.  In the middle of May the tension was exploited by the USSR, Egypt and Syria to produce the escalation which led to the 6 Day War.  

• Historical Examples of Wars Fought for Religion

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    The Crusades (1095-1291) – The Crusades were a series wars sanctioned by the Latin Church during the medieval age. The aim of crusaders was to expel Islam and spread Christianity.  At the same time they killed Jews as they went through Europe on the way to Jerusalem, and also when they got there.  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions conducted by European Christians in the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th centuries to conquer the land of Israel from the Muslims or to repel their counterattacks. For 200 years, Palestine was dominated by the Crusaders, who, following an appeal by Pope Urban II, came from Europe to recover the Holy Land from the infidels. In July 1099, after a five-week siege, the knights of the First Crusade and their rabble army captured Jerusalem, massacring most of the city’s non-Christian inhabitants. Barricaded in their synagogues, the Jews defended their quarter, only to be burnt to death or sold into slavery.  
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  • The fight-or-flight response—a state of being so important to our survival that evolution has coded it within our DNA. These segments of DNA not only help boost our physical performance in times of need, but they may also influence how the human body responds to exercise. In the past decade, research has shown that subtle changes in a fight-or-flight gene—ADRB2—may affect human athleticism.  We are made to walk.  Walking improves our health and ability to live longer.  Human survival and athleticism may be connected.                             
    
    
    
  •  A single gene can turn a docile fly into a fighter.  Ralph Greenspan and Herman Dierick of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California, bred fruit flies to be aggressive. After 21 generations, they were 30 times more aggressive than controls, as measured by an index of fighting ability. Not only did they start more fights, and ones that lasted longer, they were also fiercer, wrestling and flipping opponents rather than just chasing and hitting them.
  •  An analysis of their genome revealed that the aggressive flies expressed higher levels of an enzyme called CYP6a20 in their heads. The enzyme is produced by a single gene (Nature Genetics, DOI: 10.1038/ng1864).
  • Many genes would be expected to play a role in aggression, says Ary Hoffmann of the University of Melbourne, Australia, who first bred flies to be fighters 15 years ago. To find just one gene that accounts for a large amount of the aggression “is pretty impressive”, he says. The enzyme may also help break down pheromones, adding to evidence that an ability to sniff out rivals can trigger aggressive behaviour.   
    
    Portland, Oregon, THE CITY OF ROSES, and this hasn't stopped much shooting lately in our once beautiful city.  The smell of roses isn't triggering a shutdown to the impulse to fight. 
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  •  So far, dogs are the only ones who can help us do this.  We need dogs to smell out a man whose impulse is to fight.   They can smell out cancer, so maybe they can do this.  It's said that they can smell fear.                                   
  • Resource;
  • https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Main-Reasons-For-WarRead more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9788-single-gene-turns-fruit-flies-into-fighters/#ixzz77z7SWNV6https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/is-fighting-in-our-genes-a-biological-theory-of-warfare-1.3505451https://blog.helix.com/fight-or-flight-athleticism-the-weekly-gene-adrb2/

Bacteria and Viruses Out To Get Us:

 Nadene  Goldfoot                                  

Remember polio? Babies as young as 2 months old get their first vaccine in the USA, and again a few more times  till 18 months old, then at age 4 and 6.   The first polio vaccine was available in the United States in 1955. Thanks to widespread use of polio vaccine, the United States has been polio-free since 1979. But poliovirus is still a threat in some countries. 

 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) had it. In 1921 at age 39, Roosevelt contracted a paralytic illness when swimming, believed at the time to be polio, and his legs became permanently paralyzed.   All the children in the USA were afraid each summer of swimming and getting polio.  When the vaccine came out for this, we were all so relieved and lined up in huge lines to receive it. Many people infected with polio don’t show any symptoms. Some become temporarily paralyzed; for others, it’s permanent. In 1952, the polio epidemic reached a peak in U.S.: almost 58,000 reported cases and more than 3,000 deaths. This pandemic started in 1949.   Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a person's spinal cord, causing paralysis (can't move parts of the body).   Most people who get infected with poliovirus (about 72 out of 100) will not have any visible symptoms.  About 1 out of 4 people with poliovirus infection will have flu-like symptoms that may include:  sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, headache, stomach pain.  These symptoms usually last 2 to 5 days, then go away on their own.  A smaller proportion of people with poliovirus infection will develop other, more serious symptoms that affect the brain and spinal cord:                                      

Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever, three of whom died, and the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the disease pathogen, Salmonella typhi.  This was a bacteria-caused disease.  

You can die from typhoid, but it's harder to do  so today.  Yes, typhoid fever or typhus is deadly, but with modern treatments, very few die of it. Typhoid fever is treated with antibiotics that kill the Salmonella bacteria. Prior to the use of antibiotics, the fatality rate was 20%. Death occurred from overwhelming infection, pneumonia, intestinal bleeding, or intestinal perforation. With antibiotics and supportive care, mortality has been reduced to 1%-2%. With appropriate antibiotic therapy, there is usually improvement within one to two days and recovery within seven to 10 days.

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are most common in parts of the world where water and food may be unsafe and sanitation is poor. Travelers to South Asia, especially Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, should take precautions to prevent infection.  Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are somewhat less common in East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Both diseases are rare in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, or Japan.

You can get typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever if Salmonella comes into your body.  It has in Oregon and Washington through bird feeders.  The salmonella outbreak started over the winter. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says that activity at feeders increases in cold weather, and this pile-up of birds can lead to infection at feeders that are not regularly cleaned.

                                                           

                                   This also applies to COVID-19.  

• You eat food or drink a beverage that has been touched by a person who is shedding (getting rid of) Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi in their poop and who has not washed their hands thoroughly after going to the bathroom.
• Sewage contaminated with Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi gets into water you drink.
• Sewage contaminated with Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi gets into water used to rinse food you eat raw.

An estimated 11–21 million cases of typhoid fever and 200,000 deaths occur worldwide each year.  An estimated 5 million cases of paratyphoid occur worldwide each year.  

4% of people continued to harbour bacteria in their bodies after recovering from typhoid infection, making them the possible sources of new outbreaks.

                                                                         

                       Viruses and Bacteria ready to enter out bodies if given the chance.  

                                                                 

Members of the New York Army National Guard register people at a COVID-19 Mobile Testing Center in Glenn Island Park, New Rochelle. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Amouris Coss)

COVID 19 and all the ensuing viruses, which are all much smaller than bacteria, are highly contagious.  Even with vaccines and booster, we must follow the same rules when  around people new to our environment.  Keep a 6 foot distance between people.  That is, if you are not in an air conditioned space as that is more deadly.  If someone coughs, yells, sneezes, he or she is spreading a virus more than 6 feet from you.  Can you imagine all the yelling going on at a football game with a good turn-out?  It can be full of viruses. 

In its Sept. 21 Epidemiological Update, WHO said, “The numbers of weekly COVID-19 cases and deaths globally continued to decline this week, with over 3.6 million cases and just under 60 000 deaths reported between 13-19 September. This brings the cumulative numbers of confirmed cases and deaths globally to nearly 228 million and over 4.6 million (deaths) respectively. 

                                                  

WHO is tracking four VOCs (Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta) and two VOIs (Lambda and Mu). WHO has changed its alert system, similar to the way the CDC did, and now has a category called Variants Under Monitoring (VUMs) and is monitoring 14 VUMs.

From COVID-19 has developed the Delta,  Then, the Delta variant surfaced in the United States. First identified in India in December 2020, Delta swept rapidly through that country and Great Britain before reaching the U.S., where it quickly surged. It is now the predominant SARS CoV-2 variant, accounting for more than 99% of COVID-19 cases and leading to an overwhelming increase in hospitalizations in some states. Delta is believed to be more than twice as contagious as previous variants, and studies have shown that it may be more likely than the original virus to put infected people in the hospital. People who are not vaccinated are most at risk, and the highest spread of cases and severe outcomes is happening in places with low vaccination rates.  

A thought:  New immigrants to the USA have not gone through the childhood vaccines a newborn has had for such things like polio.  Also, have they had a vaccine against COVID 19 ?  

• According to the New York Times, at least 1 in 8 U.S. residents have been confirmed infected and at least 1 in 487 people in the country have died from COVID-19.

Resource:

https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/2019-ncov-coronavirus/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-sqKBhBjEiwAVaQ9a-zR_ti4pd4R9jEdPj8fn_3aQvyx2n-GfjbG39yghVy8cGOG-ZlHOhoCb1wQAvD_BwE

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-things-to-know-delta-variant-covid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

https://www.aier.org/article/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-polio-pandemic-of-1949-52/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-sqKBhBjEiwAVaQ9a3WyN36uK8T8dnvCV9a6Qd9B3_u3tORxlI6EMV1dkWNBLlUZeQEmuhoC0rwQAvD_BwE

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2021/04/wild-bird-feeders-spark-salmonella-outbreak-in-humans-in-oregon-7-other-states.html

https://www.medicinenet.com/can_you_die_of_typhoid_fever/ask.htm

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/long-view-tragedy-typhoid-mary?gclid=CjwKCAjw-sqKBhBjEiwAVaQ9a5P3hsSO0ovisUbgSs7NMNm1qf1KYI3HkzH4RWUPGZ74LqfIVrT6BhoCUTEQAvD_BwE

dc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/faq.html

https://www.cdc.gov/typhoid-fever/sources.html#:~:text=Typhoid%20fever%20and%20paratyphoid%20fever%20are%20most%20common%20in%20parts,take%20precautions%20to%20prevent%20infection.

Shootings in Portland Increasing

Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

 I woke up this morning to the report on channel 2 of more shootings in our fair city of Portland, Oregon.  It happened in NE Portland in the 1400 block of NE Broadway, outside a bar in the Lloyd district. 

 3 victims were injured.   Officers arrived and learned that three people had been shot, two adult females and one adult male. All three were transported to a hospital by ambulance and are being treated for injuries that are believed to be non-life threatening. The suspect or suspects left before police were called and no arrests have been made.  

The incidences of shootings has gone up in the past 3 years.  Portland is followed in 3 precincts:  Central, East and North.  Most shootings are coming from East and North Portland.

In 2019, Central had 31  shootings while East had 122 and North had 109.

In 2020, Central had 58 shootings while East had 254 and North had 178.

In 2021, Central had 87 shootings while East had 385 and North had 367.

All the precincts have had almost doubling in increases.

                                           

               Adrian Richardson, shot and killed while on the bus

As of August 9th, we had 56 homicides this year, which is the deadliest year we've had since 1994 when 55 people had been killed.  This time in August,  a man was fatally shot on a TriMet bus in Portland, Oregon, Sunday evening.  

The suspect in the shooting death of Adrian Richardson has been identified as Wayne Conrad Thompson, 47 (photos). PPB Homicide Detectives, with the help of the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, have obtained an arrest warrant for Thompson for Murder in the Second Degree and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.

                                               

                             Wayne Thompson

On August 28, 2021 at 3:47p.m., East Precinct officers responded to a report that Wayne Thompson was seen in the area of Southeast 139th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street. Officers did not find him there but did an area check and located him at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Southeast Stark Street. He was arrested without incident.

Homicide detectives responded and took custody of Thompson. They booked him into the Multnomah County Detention Center on his Murder II and Felon in Possession of a Firearm warrant.  PPB is grateful to the community for looking for Thompson.                                          

The victim in Friday's homicide (2 days ago)  has been identified as Jacob Knight-Vasquez, 34. His family has been notified of his death and provided a photo for media release. They are not interested in media interviews at this time.  This could be the 57th homicide in Portland so far this year.

The Oregon State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined Knight-Vasquez died from a gunshot wound and ruled his death a homicide.

Homicide detectives do not believe Knight-Vasquez was the intended target of the shooting. Preliminary investigation indicates the suspect fired a gun into the restaurant from the outside, where the victims were struck, then left to the west on Northwest Glisan Street.

Resource:

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/81203

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=351982

Why Our 120 year old Elk Had To Leave Downtown Portland's Park

  Nadene Goldfoot                                                

We have lost our elk with its fountain from Portland's park due to vandalism.  What kind of people would destroy and cause such harm to a statue of an elk?  It wasn't the object of a god.  It was simply an elk to remind us that this is the reason why people love Portland; a city of the Northwest full of trees and animals such as the elk.  I'm inviting such mindless people to pack up and leave our once beautiful city alone.

This elk once stood  at Southwest Main between 3rd and 4th Avenues between Chapman Square and Lownsdale Square in Portland's Plaza Blocks, featured a bronze sculpture of an elk, resting on a granite base within an octagon-shaped basin. The statue and base are 9 feet (2.7 m) tall; the basin measures approximately 3 ft. 3 in. x 25 ft. x 8 ft.

Elk, also known as the David P. Thompson Fountain, David P. Thompson Monument, Elk Fountain, or the Thompson Elk, was a historic outdoor fountain and bronze sculpture by American artist Roland Hinton Perry. The statue was donated to the city of Portland, Oregon, United States, in 1900 for display in Downtown Portland's Plaza Blocks. It is owned by Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC).                                               

March for George Floyd caused chaos, flames, destruction in Portland

Riots erupted in downtown Portland caused by George Floyd protesters.  George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African-American man who was shot by a police officer on May 25th,2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit $20 bill. A video shows officers taking a series of actions that violated the policies of the Minneapolis Police Department and turned fatal, leaving Mr. Floyd unable to breathe, even as he and onlookers called out for help. The day after Mr. Floyd’s death, the Police Department fired all four of the officers involved in the episode. 

A destructive riot rooting for better respect does not earn it by  destroying whatever is precious to people in their environment.  Our 120 year old bronze elk is no longer  safe  in our park because of their going on a rampage, their rage and fury.  Made to last forever for all children and adults to enjoy, people have managed to cause it to be uprooted and imprisoned in storage.  Rioters want respect yet while in the rioting mood they are devoid of other people's rights and property.    The old adage; don't do to others that which you don't want others to do unto you applies.  

 The monument became a gathering place for demonstrations by George Floyd protesters, who lit several fires in the troughs along the base in July 2020. The undamaged bronze elk statue was removed for cleaning and safekeeping on July 2, 2020. The stone fountain was removed on July 17, 2020 after RACC determined there was severe damage to the stone and basin of the fountain.

                                          

Protesters gathered in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square to Occupy Portland on October 6, 2011.  Occupy Portland was a collaboration that began on October 6, 2011 in downtown Portland, Oregon as a protest and demonstration against economic inequality worldwide. It is inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011.The elk was vandalized many times. It was vandalized during the Occupy Portland protest (2011), and had its antlers repaired in early 2012.  (An example of how a gathering turned destructive)                                   

The statue was tagged with anti-Trump messages in 2016.  This is vandalism.                                       

On July 1, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, people protesting police violence built bonfires in two planter boxes beneath the elk statue. The resulting structural damage to the granite base supporting the sculpture was deemed a safety hazard by the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC). The city removed the unharmed bronze elk sculpture for cleaning on July 2. After RACC determined that the stone and basin of the fountain were severely damaged, it was removed on July 17. The status of the Elk fountain remained to be determined. 

Following the deployment of federal forces to Portland, it was reported that as of July 30, the bare mound where the statue once stood remained a site of activity, with demonstrators arguing for and against its continued use for bonfires. In late August, the statue was being kept "safely in storage".

People do have a right to march about something that bothers them.  It's our American right.  But they don't have the right to mar or destroy stores and statues in our downtown Portland or any other part of it. 

I was born and raised in Portland and never thought I'd see our downtown area look like it does today.  Where we used to take the bus and go shopping once a week, I have now stayed away.  And that brings up the next topic of continued shooting in Portland and the surrounding areas like Gresham.  What's wrong with people?  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Portland

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_(sculpture)

Vaccines Against COVID/Delta and What They're Made Of; Not To Fear Them

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

An illustration of the coronavirus released by the CDC shows the spikes on its surface for which it’s named.
“Corona” is the Latin word for “crown.” (Alissa Eckert, Dan Higgins/CDC)

Vaccine ingredients vary by manufacturer. None of the vaccines contain eggs, gelatin, latex, or preservatives. All COVID-19 vaccines are free from metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth alloys. They are also free from manufactured products such as microelectronics, electrodes, carbon nanotubes, or nanowire semiconductors.

                                                             

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is made of the following ingredients:

• mRNA – Also known as messenger ribonucleic acid, mRNA is the only active ingredient in the vaccine. The mRNA molecules contain the genetic material that provide instructions for our body on how to make a viral protein that triggers an immune response within our bodies. The immune response is what causes our bodies to make the antibodies needed to protect us from getting infected if exposed to the coronavirus.

There are rumors that mRNA vaccines will alter our DNA because the RNA molecule can convert information stored in DNA into proteins. That’s simply, not true. It’s critical to note that the mRNA vaccines never enter the nucleus of the cell, where our DNA is stored. After injection, the mRNA from the vaccine is released into the cytoplasm of the cells. Once the viral protein is made and on the surface of the cell, mRNA is broken down and the body permanently gets rid of it, therefore making it impossible to change our DNA.

• Lipids – The following lipids are in the new COVID vaccine. Their main role is to protect the mRNA and provide somewhat of a “greasy” exterior that helps the mRNA slide inside the cells.
  • ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis
  • (2-hexyldecanoate), 2 [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide
  • 1,2-Distearoyl-snglycero-3- phosphocholine
  • cholesterol

• Salts – The following salts are included in the Pfizer vaccine and help balance the acidity in your body.
  • potassium chloride
  • monobasic potassium phosphate
  • sodium chloride
  • dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate

• Sugar – Basic table sugar, also known as sucrose, can also be found in the new COVID vaccine. This ingredient helps the molecules maintain their shape during freezing.
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        Pfizer lab

Cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in adolescents and young adults have been reported more often after getting the second dose than after the first dose of one of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. These reports are rare and the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks, including the possible risk of myocarditis or pericarditis.

As of this posting, 385 million people  in USA have received a vaccination against COVID. 

                                                           

Fully vaccinated in USA are 181 million.  This means that the USA is only 55.2% fully vaccinated right now.  Many of these are children that are not vaccinated.

Senior people who have major problems with their systems such as Diabetes must take more precautions by not attending such places as football games at stadiums.  These are the ones who have died even after taking the vaccine.  Their time limit has been damaged by their physical situation and have needed a 3rd booster sooner than the others.  There has been a death under this situation; very sad to say.  

The other half of our country need to re-examine their reasoning for not getting the vaccine.  They are putting in danger half of the country by possibly be walking COVID 19 Mary.  Remember Typhoid Mary?  

Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever, three of whom died, and the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the disease pathogen, Salmonella typhi. Because she persisted in working as a cook, by which she exposed others to the disease, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, eventually for the final two decades of her life. Mallon died after a total of nearly 30 years in isolation.  Born in N. Ireland,  presumably, she was born with typhoid because her mother was infected during pregnancy. This is a bacteria disease, not a virus.  At the age of 15, she emigrated to the United States.  She lived in New York.  

So if one person can infect 53 people, that means that this is also possible with COVID 19.  COVID is also very deadly.  674,000 people have died in the USA from COVID 19 so far out of the 42 million that came down with it.                                                      

Those who have had it may also have long-lasting results from this virus that have damaged  the organs in the body.  This is now called LONG COVID.  From Dr Janet Diaz, Cardiac Quality Specialist at Q-Centrix and currently as a Stroke Registrar Medical Analysis at Lancaster General Hospital, now politician, who said:                                  

So, some of the most common symptoms of post COVID-19 condition or as you said, long COVID, include shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction, which people call brain fog, as well as fatigue. Those are the three most common. However, there has been more than 200 symptoms that actually have been reported in patients. So that list is quite long. So other symptoms that patients or people may experience include things such as chest pain, such as trouble speaking, some have described anxiety or depression, muscle aches, fever, loss of smell, loss of taste. So the list is quite long, but those top three are the ones that have been described.

Forbes found out that 1/3 of people with COVID 19 suffered from long COVID 19.  Insider discovered that new research said that it could be an autoimmune disease.  Fox News found that more kids are suffering from long Covid 19 and Baltimore, MD has one of the treatment clinics for it.  

If you suspect that someone has COVID 19, look for emergency warning signs for COVID-19. If someone is showing any of these signs, seek emergency medical care immediately:

Trouble breathing

Persistent pain or pressure in the chest

New confusion

Inability to wake or stay awake

Pale, gray, or blue-colored skin, lips, or nail beds, depending on skin tone

Call your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.

Incidentally, The danger from typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever doesn't end when symptoms disappear. Even if your symptoms seem to go away, you may still be carrying Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi. If so, the illness could return, or you could pass the bacteria to other people. A bacterial disease spread through contaminated food and water or close contact. Vaccines are recommended in areas where typhoid fever is common.  Symptoms include high fever, headache, belly pain, and either constipation or diarrhea.  Treatment includes antibiotics and fluids. 20,000 cases happen every year in the USA.  

 Perhaps the most important distinction between bacteria and viruses is that antibiotic drugs usually kill bacteria, but they aren't effective against viruses.  Viruses are even smaller than bacteria and require living hosts — such as people, plants or animals — to multiply. Otherwise, they can't survive. When a virus enters your body, it invades some of your cells and takes over the cell machinery, redirecting it to produce the virus.

Diseases caused by viruses include:

• Chickenpox
• AIDS
• Common colds

In some cases, it may be difficult to determine whether a bacterium or a virus is causing your symptoms. Many ailments — such as pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhea — can be caused by either bacteria or viruses.

Update: 9/24/21 9:00am Here I am, 87 years old, and I'm eligible for my booster which was just announced on ABC to be available in pharmacies today.  I had just come out online Wednesday evening that I was eligible, as my age compromises my immune system.  Yesterday I tried 2 pharmacies and their information had not caught up with the facts.  I tried today by calling my pharmacy first and they are not set up, either.  What the government pronounces and what the reality is, are two different things.  It's very frustrating.  I have no way of knowing when this can take place.  There's no communication so far between pharmacies and customers like me due to their phone automated- outdated phone systems.  I'm not afraid of the booster; but getting it is now a pain in the neck. 

PS : later10:30 am :  At about 10:30am, I drove back to the pharmacy I visited first two days ago with an appointment and was refused, and this time I received my booster Pfizer vaccine.  I am now celebrating.  3rd time trying and  I finally got it!! My son came over and phoned the pharmacy-the automated pharmacy, and he pushed the right buttons that I had pushed, but gave different responses to questions asked and found it was safe to return and get the vaccine today.  Otherwise I would have given up trying-at least for now.  But, I DID IT!! 

 

Resource:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infectious-diseases/expert-answers/infectious-disease/faq-20058098

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/typhoid-fever/symptoms-causes/syc-20378661

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html?s_cid=10492:what%20is%20the%20covid%20vaccine%20made%20of:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY21

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https://covidblog.oregon.gov/oha-releases-statement-on-fda-booster-dose-recommendation/