I heard a figure yesterday that was startling. A group of researchers tried to determine how many extra deaths from Covid 19 were caused by misinformation. They used examples of other vaccines, how effective they were, and how they were accepted. Based on those comparisons, there was an excess of approximately 300,000 deaths. I had friends and family who would not get the vaccine because of what they had been given misinformation. The misinformation range from the vaccine would change your DNA to it wasn’t any more severe than the common flu. Worse yet was the fact that the vaccine became political. One party was pro-vaccine, while the other was anti-vaccine. I found that hard to believe because the anti-vaccine believers were losing votes for their party when they died.
Part of the reason people would believe the anti-vaccine propaganda was a lack of education about genetics and mRNA, plus how the immune system works. There are people like me whose education never included those topics because they were developed after we left school. I didn’t believe most of the anti-vaccine propaganda because I had taken the time to educate myself on genetics and the immune system. Sadly, some died just because people didn’t understand mRNA and how effective a vaccine developed using mRNA. Politicians didn’t help because it became a political issue. That is sad.
