Sooner or later, that wall of idiocy and silence will fall, too.
A highly admired Rabbi was sitting with his students when suddenly he stopped talking and appeared very concerned.
" What is wrong?" they asked.
" I have very bad news for you" was his reply.
"I was looking into the distance and then I saw a large fire approaching the near-by city Odessa".
The students were alarmed. They all had relatives there and they should go as fast as possible to warn them of this serious danger.
It was Friday night, so very hard to get to the big city.
with much efforts, they managed to get there within a few hours.
But, they could see no fire and not even some smoke. Everyone was getting peacefully ready for the weekend and did not understand what they were concerned about.
They waited another day there just to be reassured, and then traveled back to their own village.
Their friends and relatives mocked them and their Rabbi for this false warning.
But, this did not make them lose their confidence.
" You have to admit" they said " that although he may have been wrong, it is admirable that he was able to see so far"
When people believe it is very hard to change their minds.
I have serious concerns about vaccinations. I am not sure that it is a smart strategy to trick the immune system to create antibodies as if it was attacked by a real invader.
I think that the risk and prevalence of a true infection should be significant enough to justify this approach.
I don't think we have a way to truly estimate the potential short and long term damage of vaccines and therefore have to be more cautious.
People underestimate the damage that can be caused by the immune system, in its attempts to fight invading organisms. we really do not know enough about the immune system to safely meddle with it.
We give too many vaccines to prevent relatively trivial diseases. We gives vaccines to avoid loss of days of work, or prevent temporary discomfort. Not just to prevent truly fatal diseases. And do we really know the consequences?
people keep on saying-Yes, thanks to vaccines we no longer have small pox or polio or tetanus. That is true, but this does not mean that we should now use this effective two-sided sword for everything that moves.